UCU: Campaign against increased employer contributions to TPS

Motion

Motion text: Sector conference notes:

1. the financial damage caused in HE institutions by increased employer contributions to TPS and the use of this as a pretext for redundancies and other attacks on working conditions

2. the threat of similar increased contributions and attacks in FE.

Conference:

a. condemns the government’s refusal to implement measures to mitigate the impact of increased employer contributions

b. regards this refusal as a direct attack on the long-term viability of FE institutions.

Conference instructs the FEC to:

i. support action, up to and including strike action, in any FE institution threatening attacks on pensions, jobs or working conditions under the guise of making savings consequent upon employer pension contribution rises.

ii. organise a high profile national campaign to demand the government fund FE institutions to meet increased employer contributions, and
iii. establish a working party specifically to defend TPS.