UCU: Pay, GTVO, job-security and branch solidarity

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. the continued FE pay crisis
2. the role of this in the wider underfunding of FE which cuts away at working class access to education.

Conference celebrates:
a. continued progress in mobilising turnout under restrictions of anti-union legislation
b. the determination and persistence of members fighting for pay, including City of Wolverhampton smashing through their initial ballot turnout to achieve 78. 2%
c. the successful use of the pay dispute as an industrial lever to secure employment for casualised staff at CCCG
d. the value of solidarity between branches with recent success and those working to mobilise members in delivering collective pay justice.

Conference resolves:
i. to strengthen the mechanisms for branch solidarity by devising a programme for activist sharing of GTVO strategies for pay and security of work regionally and nationally
ii. to continue to ballot members where colleges fail to meet our pay demands

Conference requests:
iii. for the regional office to support reps to clean their membership lists
iv. the regional office to work with branch secretaries and branch membership officers by offering the follow up admin in helping to contact members to update their membership details.