UCU: Build back better

Motion

Motion text: FESC notes the Build Back Better campaign which seeks to ensure society’s
response to the pandemic is to protect public services, tackle inequality and
provide quality jobs whilst addressing the climate crisis.
FESC notes the bargaining priority areas to tackle the race & gender pay gaps;
insecure work and unmanageable workloads, as well policy on democratic
governance and ending outsourcing and the Green New Deal bargaining
guidance to branches.
FESC believes that the pandemic has left branches struggling to address these
priority areas whilst ensuring that their workplace is a safe environment to work.
As such there is a need for bargaining support to be streamlined to help
branches achieve maximum impact in all these areas with the resources they
have.
FESC therefore instructs FEC to draw up a model claim and accompanying
guidance for branches which includes the principles of the Build Back Better
campaign and UCU’s bargaining priorities.