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Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
• We are bearing the burden of the increasing cost of essentials such as food where hourly-paid members are worst affected
• Despite no money to properly fund our public services this government has promised hundreds of billions of pounds to 'bail out' financial institutions
• Last year's government announcement to expand university places by improving grant provision greatly underestimated the demand. Instead of endorsing this success, the government has made cuts to save £200M.
Conference demands:
• The salary claim be used to organise hourly-paid lecturers and researchers
• The government makes massive investment in HE a priority as a response to recession, including abolition of top up fees and restoration of the student grant.
Conference instructs HEC to:
• Put our claim to UCEA at the earliest possible date
• Ballot for industrial action if the employers refuse to negotiate
• Move to annual pay claims
• Seek coordinated industrial action with other public sector unions, especially campus trade unions.
• Organise a joint political campaign with the NUS and sister campus trade unions to reassert the case for Higher Education as a public good.