Motion
- Motion title
- Emergency motion
- Session
- 2019-2020
- Meeting link
- Special HE sector conference (USS)
- Meeting date
- 6 December 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- L5
- Motion text
Conference notes that students at the University of Reading are to be disciplined by the management of the university in response to their attempted occupation in support of the climate strikes and UCU strikes.
UCU has policy to support students’ right to peaceful protest.
This conference sends a message of solidarity to students who have protested at the University of Reading and calls upon management not to respond to the students in a draconian or heavy-handed manner.
- Proposing body
- Emergency motion (University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, Open University, University of Sheffield, Lancaster University, Durham University, University of Liverpool, University of St Andrews, Southern regional committee, University of Cambridge)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/H/12-06/008/L5