UCU: Cuts to FE funding

Motion

Motion text: Conference condemns the national funding cuts in Adult Education and ESOL provision. Conference is also alarmed at the creeping privatisation and contestability within the FE sector. Conference recognises that these cuts will have severe consequences for the most vulnerable members of our society. This Conference resolves:
Too immediately, mount a national campaign against the cuts in Adult Education and privatisation.
To publicise and inform UCU members and branches of the proposals around privatisation and contestability and their consequences
To ballot for national industrial action, escalating to all out strike, to defend Further Education as a publicly funded, high quality service.
This campaign will be built on the current ESOL campaign that has generated wide public and political support. The campaign should also link up with the TUC, other trade unions, students, and local communities fighting against cuts in public services.