Motion
- Motion title
- FTC staff and serial redundancy
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2009
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE20
- Motion text
This conference calls on the UCU National Executive Committee to engage in national level discussions with the research councils, HEFCE and UCEA, to urgently address the inadequate responses of many universities to the Ball and Bigott rulings. Confusion reigns in the sector because of so many alleged open-ended contracts with reference to end dates/funding have been issued. The research is continuing at the University level so it is wrong to pick out certain contract researchers and dismiss them with a 'redundancy pool of one'. This union resolves to address the uncertainties facing thousands of FTC staff. This union seeks to negotiate with UCEA, the employers, to reach a revised model for funding university research which does not rely on serial redundancy.
- Proposing body
- University of Manchester
- Amended
- Yes
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/H/05-28/096/HE20