Motion
- Motion title
- Collectivise the Resistance: solidarity action works
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2021
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 40
- Motion text
Congress notes the Covid-19 crisis confronts the trade union movement with huge challenges.
Congress believes:
1. The government handling of the pandemic led to one of the worse death tolls in Europe.
2. The NEU’s collective use of section 44 and mass participatory meetings for reps and all members is a model we should follow. They prevented an unsafe return to schools.
3. UCU branches like Heriot-Watt and Brighton have won real victories to defend jobs. Collective action works.
4. Record branch meetings and groups like UCU Solidarity Movement, Pandemic PGRS, CoronaContract, showed the appetite to organise and resist.
Congress resolves to develop strategy to co-ordinate UCU response across all nations to address:
a. any unsafe return to face2face
b. job losses
c. workloads
d. pensions attacks
e. fight casualisation
f. low pay and the gender and race pay gap
g. transforming and reconstructing post-16 education.
- Proposing body
- London regional committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2021/C/05-29/163/40