UCU: The NOP and bargaining strategies

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes the:
success of the NOP in beginning the enhancement of departmental and institutional representation, unfolding universal training programmes, and coordinating recruitment activity;
Branch Development Organiser appointments soon to cover all Regions, and the national coordination of NOP-related work of regional offices;
on-going refinement of regional maps of local agreements in FE and HE sectors, and the mapping of membership densities within and between institutions.
Congress resolves that, using the NOP, the NEC and sub-committees initiate a 'levelling-up' campaign involving the:
identification of the best pay and conditions regionally, and regional patterns of divergence from national agreements or sectoral trends;
forging of FE and HE Regional Committees into cohesive and informed bodies that devise regional industrial strategies in conjunction with the regional office staff;
organisation and mobilisation of Branches in Regional campaigns of negotiations and industrial action to level up pay and conditions to the best available.
highlighting of the interests of casualised members.
Congress also welcomes the continuing and increasing level of co-operation between UCU and the National Union of Teachers at national and local level and calls on the NEC to encourage further co-operation with the NUT at Regional and local level through the NOP.