Table of Contents
1. FOREWORD
1.1 A manifesto for a modern education union
1.2 An affordable strategy that holds managers to account
1.3 No shortcuts: beyond party politics
2. BUILDING THE UNION
2.1 Comprehensive subscription reform to help our FE, precarious, and low-paid members
2.2 Increased funding to strike against casualisation
2.3 Empowering national committees and the members they represent
2.4 Task groups: putting members’ expertise and experiences to use
2.5 New approaches to negotiating
3. CASUALISATION AND PRECARITY
3.1 Towards national bargaining on job security
3.2 Learning from our professional services members
4. PAY
4.1 Local bargaining in FE
4.2 HE pay erosion entrenches privilege and threatens the profession
5. EQUALITY
5.1 Nationally coordinated casework
5.2 National bargaining on non-pay equality issues
6. HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT
6.1 Compensating the material costs of anti-immigrant policies
6.2 Campaigning against surveillance and the security state
7. WORKLOAD, HEALTH, AND SAFETY
7.1 A national workload reporting service
7.2 A research-driven, proactive campaign against irresponsible metrics
8. PENSIONS
8.1 National coordination to protect TPS institutions
8.2 Securing the future of USS
9. MY ROLE AS GENERAL SECRETARY
9.1 Fostering accountability
9.2 Making UCU structures accessible
9.3 Conclusion
9.4 Acknowledgements
Jo Grady for UCU General Secretary 