Motion
- Motion title
- The campaign against points-based immigration
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2009
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 32
- Motion text
Congress strongly condemns points based immigration and believes PBI is against our core values of academic freedom and equality.
Congress instructs NEC to
1. Campaign jointly with TUC, NUS, employers, and other organisations to put pressure on the government to repeal this legislation.
2. Make public statements opposing PBI.
3. Submit a motion to TUC condemning PBI and asking TUC and its affiliates to join the campaign.
4. Directly inform all members of UCU policy on PBI, encouraging them to use passive resistance and other creative and legal acts of non-participation to show that the system is unworkable.
5. To encourage branches to ballot to boycott PBI.
6. Organise a national demonstration and lobby of parliament and encourage a sympathetic MP to put up a private member's bill
7. Produce campaigning resource materials for branches and actively recruit international staff and students.
- Proposing body
- National executive committee (NEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/C/05-27/047/32