UCU: Campaign against privatisation in higher education

Motion

Motion text: Sector conference congratulates those branches and associations like Essex University, Goldsmiths College and Manchester Metropolitan University, which successfully resisted privatisation attempts.
Sector conference recognises:
that despite economic crisis the threat of privatisation in higher education has not diminished
that the ideological bankruptcy of neo-liberalism has not deterred Labour from pressing on with disastrous attempts to commodify HE
that privatisation may appear an attractive option to institutions claiming to be in financial crisis
the consistent and effective support from UCU's campaigns team to branches resisting threats of privatisation.
Sector conference encourages local organisations to draw on available best practice in resisting privatisation and marketisation, to seek joint action with other campus unions, and to use all means of resistance including strike action in the knowledge that by doing so they are fighting to protect members' pay and conditions, educational quality and academic freedom.