UCU: Framework agreement and local bargaining

Motion

Motion text: Conference believes that the Framework Agreement has fractured common practices on pay throughout Higher Education sector.
This 'flexibility' consequent on locally agreed variations threatens to become the precursor for local bargaining on pay and conditions, and a threat to national negotiations.

Conference instructs the HEC to seek to reverse this threat by
using the work of the PIG/RatPan sub-committees to identify 'best practice' in the sector as a whole in respect of progression, HPL contracts, grade boundaries, promotion procedures, contribution points, etc. and circulating this information to Las/branches;
coordinating appropriately varied local campaigns to achieve a progressive convergence of local agreements on a notional common national set of conditions.