UCU: Statutory employment rights of casualised staff

Motion

Motion text: Conference condemns the cynical use of agencies by colleges to manage provision that is neither temporary nor occasional.
Conference notes the numerous examples of agency staff employed year after year teaching the same courses and working significant numbers of hours.
Conference recognises that:
3. We have a duty to represent all our members, including those forced into agencies to gain access to employment.
4. These members are amongst the worst paid and most badly treated members in the sector.
Conference further calls on the FEC to:
4. Prioritise the fight against the misuse of agencies within colleges.
5. Draw up a policy that strictly limits the use of agencies, this to be put to the AoC for adoption as a national agreement.
6. Set up national talks to negotiate on behalf of members, whereby pay and conditions of agency workers are set to mirror our national framework and national agreements.
7. Collect annual statistical information outlining the extent of agency involvement in the sector.