Motion
- Motion title
- Disputes of national significance
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 2 June 2021
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE21
- Motion text
HESC notes:
1. More than a dozen UCU branches face threats of compulsory redundancies, including Liverpool, Leicester, Dundee, Roehampton, UEL, Solent, Goldsmiths, Leeds and more
2. Many of these are targeting union activists, including UEL, Leicester and Dundee.
3. Elements of success have been seen at Northumbria where a formal ballot was initiated immediately without a consultative ballot and at Heriot Watt with their rapid activation of the Academic Boycott & Censure process.
4. UCU existing policy recognising disputes of national significance. HESC resolves to:
a. Declare all current disputes to be of national significance.
b. Streamline the process of balloting, remove the requirement for consultative ballots
c. Allow Academic Boycott and Censure to be declared immediately on request of the branch.
d. Report back to HEC on all branches in dispute with the time taken from an employer declaring proposed job cuts to beginning of the balloting of members
- Proposing body
- University of Liverpool
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2021/H/06-02/234/HE21