UCU: Defending jobs and education

Motion

Motion text: Congress:
Notes that UCU members' jobs continue to be lost and provision cut across post-16 education despite government and employer rhetoric on the importance of our sector during a recession
Believes that making educators redundant is an act of vandalism when rising unemployment and social and economic inequity mean education has never been so important
Instructs ROCC, working with the FE and HE committees under the National Organising Plan to initiate a national campaign to protect jobs, defend provision; provide targeted support to branches fighting cuts; and make common cause with other unions in campaigning against mass unemployment
Recognizes that cuts may disproportionately affect fixed-term and hourly paid staff and resolves to oppose these redundancies with equal vigour as those of staff on full-time and permanent contracts
Congress agrees to support the Conference 'Fight for the Right to Work' supported by Visteon workers and the Waterford Crystal shop stewards on 13th June in London.