UCU: Teaching students about workers' rights

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes that many university and college students have little knowledge of the role of trade unions in protecting the rights of working people. Many university and college students work part-time in non-unionised sectors of the economy. In this type of employment our students may learn little about good employment practice in respect of health and safety, equal opportunities and workers' rights. Sometimes too the employability discourse reproduces the subjugation of labour.
Congress calls on UCU to formulate guidance on how members, in their role as educators, can raise students' awareness of good employment practice, in respect of health and safety at work and equal opportunities, and of the benefits that trade union organisation can bring to working people.