UCU: Another fancy new building going up? That's your pay-rise!

Motion

Motion text: In representing over 1000 members, we in the Manchester College Prison Education demand that Congress directly challenge the manner in which universities, colleges and all other publicly funded establishments allocate resources and spend money.
Whilst we welcome a boost to the building trade, we ask whether or not having shiny new glass fronted edifices spring up all around our campuses is in fact being done at the expense of university and college lecturers' pay and conditions.
Why, for example, should the profits from prison education contracts in the Isle of Wight, Birmingham or Durham end up servicing bank loans for the ever expanding Manchester campuses while lecturers fall victim to both redundancy and vicious rewrites of their contracts?
Congress therefore urges the NEC to mount a national campaign that confronts the way that universities and colleges use and abuse their funding streams, especially where public money and lucrative government contracts are involved.