UCU: Response to the New JNCHES 2021-22 negotiating round

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes
1. The unacceptable 2021-22 UCEA offer, the 0% pay adjustment of 2020-21, and over a decade of prior subpar offers.
2. Local attacks on member conditions and job security by individual HEIs.
3. Ongoing threats to pension security, both in USS and TPS, Conference resolves to
a. Reject UCEA’s 2021-22 offer and formally enter into dispute.
b. Task HEC Chair and elected negotiating team with developing materials to raise member awareness around the headline issues of the 2021-22 New JNCHES claim during summer 2021, and to actively organize towards the possibility of balloting.
c. Task HEC with holding a Special HE Sector Conference in the first two weeks of August 2021 on the topic of HE dispute(s), including New JNCHES, USS, TPS, and any possible links between them.
d. Schedule a HEC meeting the week following this Special HESC to action the policy determined by conference