Motion
- Motion title
- Disproportionate deductions for ASOS
- Session
- 2019-2020
- Meeting link
- Special HE sector conference (USS)
- Meeting date
- 6 December 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE5
- Motion text
The HESC notes that:
1. ASOS highlights the volume of unpaid labour that is currently being undertaken in UK HEIs.
2. the failure to reschedule teaching events and other work missed due to strike action should not be considered “partial performance”.
3. 100% deductions for ASOS are a draconian and unnecessarily punitive response to members’ legal rights to take industrial action.
4. disproportionate deductions for action short of strike have the greatest effect on our most vulnerable and precarious members.
The HESC therefore resolves to instruct the HEC to:
a. call for an international academic boycott of all institutions that implement disproportionate reductions for ASOS
b. consider how strike fund contributions can be used to off-set any remaining deductions that result from ASOS, especially for our most vulnerable and precarious members
c. authorise local strike ballots if requested by branches where disproportionate deductions have been made.
- Proposing body
- University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/H/12-06/007/HE5