Motion
- Motion title
- Challenging workloads: a national health and safety issue
- Session
- 2018-2019
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 26 May 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE24
- Motion text
Conference notes ever increasing, unmanageable workloads impacting on members' health and safety. It calls on the HEC to evaluate the UCU health and safety workload campaign and update members on the progress of that campaign.
Conference notes that the deaths of Dr Malcolm Anderson (Cardiff University) and Professor Stefan Grimm (Imperial College) have been disregarded in the context of increasing workloads caused by redundancies, financial mismanagement and governance irregularities.
Conference resolves that UCU:
1. identify the most egregious and exploitative employers
2. seek legal opinion on the risk to university staff health, safety, and lifework balance with a view to taking collective action against particularly egregious employers
3. continues to work to ensure balanced workloads.
- Proposing body
- Bournemouth University
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/H/05-26/200/HE24