UCU: Commission for sustainability, professional development and job security

Motion

Motion title: Commission for sustainability, professional development and job security

Motion text: Congress recognises UCU’s Commission for Effective Industrial Action (CEIA) reported that the Union’s strength is best applied by:
1. identifying key issues which motivate current and prospective members
2. extensive preparation, member involvement, recruitment and sustained action, in diverse forms
Congress resolves to, replicate CEIA’s model:
a. establish a commission
b. draw up recommendations for a one-day special Congress discussing subsequent actions
c. commission's membership to be elected by and from this annual Congress, constituted by lay members from all devolved nations and regions
d. regional committees, devolved nations and branches be encouraged to organise discussion of the same issues.
The commission will report on how UCU might work towards:
i. secure employment, particularly reduced use of atypical, agency and subsidiary workers
ii. lifelong learning, in-work training and professional development
iii. sustainability; financial, social, psychological and environmental
iv. the development or application of educational technologies that support the above.