UCU: Resisting attacks and cuts in post-16 education

Motion

Motion text: UCU members are facing the biggest onslaught on post-16 education in many decades. Whichever party wins the next election it is clear that public sector workers and services will be made to pay the cost of the economic and financial crisis.
Congress is alarmed about the serious reductions in funding for post-16 education and in particular:
the reductions in capital building funds particularly in FE;
the closure of courses and departments in HE;
the closure of courses, particularly A-levels, in FE;
the narrowing focus of publicly funded adult education;
the consequent redundancies, the impact on those still able to secure employment in post-16 education and the impact on pensions.
Congress resolves that UCU should prioritise opposition to cuts in post 16 education provision and resist attacks on pay, conditions and pensions both politically and with industrial action. UCU should seek a joint campaign in conjunction with other unions in the post-16 education sector and other public sector unions within the TUC.