UCU: Resistance in the recession

Motion

Motion text: Congress congratulates the workers of Prisme and Visteon on their successful campaigns against summary dismissal with no compensation, and UCU members at Doncaster College on their inspiring victory against a large scale threat of redundancies and dilution.
Congress also congratulates Wales UCU on the successful outcome to their campaign to force more funding from the Welsh Assembly.
In each case workers have refused to accept that job losses, cuts and closures in this recession are inevitable. They have refused to accept the view that workers must inevitably pay for the crisis.
These successful disputes, which have attracted widespread solidarity and support, have shown that through militant resistance, including strike action, occupations, rallies, mass lobbies and demonstrations, workers and their unions can mobilise popular and successful fightbacks.
Congress resolves to widely publicise these victories as examples of the sort of militant fightback required to defend our own members' jobs and conditions.