UCU: Fighting for national employment standards

Motion

Motion text: SHESC notes:
1. That the ‘expectations’ on employment arrangements in HE discussed in UCEA’s most recent offer on the Four Fights dispute represents a significant step forward in the fight against casualisation in HE
2. That if these ‘expectations’ were turned into binding national employment standards in HE, this would represent a huge win for our union
3. That UK HE is highly dependent on hyper-exploited casualised labour, and that it will require serious industrial leverage to push employers to agree to binding national standards of employment
SHESC resolves:
a. To make securing national employment standards a key part of any new claim put forward to UCEA
b. To build a campaign of escalating industrial action over this academic year, supplemented by a wide range of effective ASOS and assessment boycotts, designed to maximise leverage through targeted disruption of /assessment periods.