UCU: Industrial, organising and campaigning strategy

Motion

Motion text: Conference supports FEC’s industrial, organising and campaigning strategy developed following the 2009/10 pay ballot.
In the context of unprecedented attacks on public sector spending and funding of education in FE in particular conference calls upon FEC to:
Continue fighting job losses and campaigning vigorously in defence of the sector against the devastating funding cuts
Support branches fighting job losses by aggregating vigorously in defence of the sector against devastating job cuts
Continue to campaign to end the incorporation of FE colleges so that national agreements on pay and conditions are not ignored or watered down by individual college corporations.
Develop and support branch activity on tackling excessive workloads and bullying
Seek to organise instructor/trainer/associate teacher/agency with a view to improving their pay and conditions
Seek to build an alliance for action against and pay freeze and/or attacks on public sector pensions with other FE unions, and with other trade unions across the public sector.
Conference calls on NEC to approach other unions to jointly organise a national public sector demonstration and call for a one day public sector strike in defence of jobs and services in early Autumn and demand that the TUC endorse such a call.