Congress motions

Motion

Motion title

Harlow College

Session

2006-2007

Meeting link

Annual Congress

Meeting date

1 June 2007

Status

Passed

Motion

53

Motion text

Congress deplores Principal Colin Hindmarch's plans to sack 205 Lecturers and force them to re-apply for their jobs at vastly inferior terms and conditions. This represents a huge attempt to deskill the workforce and undervalue the staff, students and the (largely working class) local community.
Lecturers stand to:
Lose about £10,000-£13,000 annual salary
Lose 18 days annual leave
Be required to work a minimum of 37 hours and up to a maximum of 56 hours weekly
Be required to work up to a maximum of 10 hours work per day
Have no weekly or annual maximum teaching hours
No longer be entitled to overtime or time off in lieu
whilst 35% of lecturers will be re-employed on support staff contracts
Meanwhile staff disciplinaries and victimisation have mushroomed. Courses and staff have been appraised without consent and secretly red-zoned as unsatisfactory.
Congress instructs UCU Officers and Officials to mount a massive campaign of action and publicity in order to halt this disastrous situation.

Congress further notes that Harlow FE College management is attempting to impose these new draconian contracts on staff by threatening them with redundancy if they refuse to sign and that members of the UCU Executive at Harlow have been disciplined for basic trade union activity, including communicating with members.

Congress also notes previous policies such as AUT's of 'greylisting' HE institutions in dispute, used at universities from London Metropolitan to Hull.

Congress therefore calls on the NEC to support Harlow UCU in every way possible, including greylisting Harlow FE College if the branch so demands it.

Proposing body

Composite

Amended

No

Allocated to

Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)

Notes