UCU: Cuts in adult education

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes proposed cuts in financial support to adult education leading to the closure of ESOL and Basic Skills classes.

Conference believes these cuts are confused, mean-spirited, motivated by misplaced adherence to the market in education, and hostile to multiculturalism.
Conference resolves:
1. To mount an effective nationwide campaign to resist the government's plans for adult education with clear-cut and well-funded publicity to enhance public awareness and to gain public support
2. That this campaign should include the potential use of national or regional industrial action to ensure that that the union's position is backed up by action or the threat of it
3. To encourage branches and associations to set up campaigns involving community organisations, elected representatives, other unions, etc.
4. To organise a lobby of the LSC
5. To support branches which take industrial action in defence of jobs and to restore ESOL and Basic Skills provision.