UCU: Casualisation in higher education

Motion

Motion text: Conference commends the HEC for agreeing a unified approach to casualisation across HE, and to no sign-off of local implementations of the Framework Agreement unless hourly-paid staff are transferred to the pay and grading structures alongside other staff, with every effort to secure fractional (or full time salaried) contracts as part of the implementation, and to make them permanent.
We call on the HEC to further combat casualisation by:
supporting LAs and branches in negotiating Fixed Term Staff agreements, and ensuring that these include hourly-paid staff
not signing off local implementations of the Framework Agreement unless hourly-paid teaching staff (HPLs) are included on a minimum of Academic Grade 2 alongside other teaching staff
where earlier Framework Agreements have not so benefited HPLs, working alongside local activists to bring pay and contracts into line with national policy
ensuring all permanent work is matched by permanent contracts (excepting temporary cover);
campaigning to bring HPLs in pre-92 universities into national negotiations.
seeking the universalisation of the post-92 hourly rate.