UCU: Manifesto for academic-related staff

Motion

Motion text: Conference endorses the revisions to the UCU manifesto for academic related staff set out in circular UCU/81.
Conference instructs the Academic Related Staff Committee to organise a high profile re-launch of the manifesto and to use it to raise the profile of academic related members.
The committee is instructed to liaise with the Recruitment, Organising and Campaigns Committee to ensure the manifesto is used as a national campaigning and recruitment tool. It is also instructed to provide advice to HE local associations and branches on how to take forward recruitment and campaigning work with academic related staff.
Conference believes the manifesto should be distributed widely through the UC magazine and, if possible, through other publications. Regional committees should be asked to discuss how to use the manifesto in their campaigning and organising work.
AR staff have suffered disproportionate red circling compared to other staff categories, indicating a lack of understanding of the complexity and professional contribution of AR roles. Managements have cut costs at their expense.
Congress calls upon the NEC to commission further analysis of pre-1992 survey returns, compare AR role profiles across the sector, assess the impact of role profiles on AR career paths, and identify and publicise worst / best practice.