Motion detail – Congress motions

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:

1. That privatisation, whether in the form of out-sourcing, PFI-style deals, or outright transfers to private industry, is part of an ideological and political project that denigrates public service and undermines democratic accountability.

2. The devastating effects on society, as individual self-interest interest is championed to the detriment of social bonds and community identity. In education this means an overemphasis on students' vocational qualifications to the detriment of personal growth and development.

3. That where universities have sought private involvement, redundancies have been threatened as have pay and conditions and quality of education has been put at risk, and that for UCU members in both FE and HE it seriously threatens pay and conditions, increased casualisation, and massively increased workloads, leading to a long-term fall in the quality of education

Congress condemns the creeping privatisation and marketisation of further and higher education, and resolves to fight to reverse this process by

1. Supporting branches resisting privatisation (including the use of strike action);
2. Organising a national demonstration against the threat of privatisation across both HE and FE;
3. Building a campaign in liaison with all unions and organisations fighting marketisation of the public sector