UCU: Cut management excess not staff jobs

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
– Vice-chancellors' salaries, following an average 7% rise in 2009, have risen to an average ¬£193,970 a year, with 80+ earning significantly more than the Prime Minister;
– The massive increase in the number of senior managers in universities earning more than ¬£100,000 a year and receiving generous private health insurance and pension benefits;
– The use of generous bonuses and PRP payments to 'incentivise' senior university managers;
– The vast majority of redundancies announced within our sector have targeted main grade academic, academic-related, and administrative staff; yet Equality Impact Assessments are not carried out. Meanwhile Vice Chancellors should be condemned for failing to protect members' jobs while protecting their own.
Conference believes:
– Any payroll savings should primarily come from a reduction in management excess, and, if necessary, a rationalisation of senior management posts.
Conference resolves:
– That the NEC campaign to fight for increased funding of our universities with the aim to re-structure our universities away from excessive, expensive, top-down managerialist structures towards flatter, elected, collegiate structures. Further to ensure appropriate equality capacity building skills for managers.