UCU: Workload and stress

Motion

Motion text: UCU FE Sector Conference notes:
The growing workloads of FE lecturers.
The fact that in some FE colleges annual teaching of 880-900 hours is the norm.
The proposed increases in the number of hours of CPD that lecturers are required to perform.
That lecturers work record levels of unpaid overtime.
The impact of increasing workloads & stress on the health and wellbeing of lecturers. The extraordinarily low participation levels in the NEC elections particularly FE turnout that suggests a disengagement with UCU. ' At end of motion add: 'To seek to re-engage with the FE membership through a planned campaign of imaginative industrial action to include an aggressive sustained media campaign to draw attention to and seek to restore meaningful collective bargaining and improve the appalling terms and conditions of service.
UCU FE Sector Conference resolves:
To instruct the incoming FEC & national officers of the union to make campaigning on stress and workload a priority for the union.
To co-ordinate & lead, a campaign of information and support to branches to effectively combat the long hour's culture that has become prevalent throughout FE.
To direct a campaign of action at those colleges with the highest annual teaching loads
To ensure that any increase in CPD is not imposed on top of existing teaching hours.