UCU Congress 2012

UCU Congress - 8-10 June 2012

UCU's Annual Congress 2012 will be held at Manchester Central Convention Centre from Friday 8 June - Sunday 10 June 2012.

This will include meetings of the Higher Education and Further Education Sector Conferences. Sector conference meetings will take place on Friday 8 June.  

• CONGRESS LIVE!
• TIMETABLE 
• FRINGE & SOCIAL EVENTS
• KEY DOCUMENTS
• CONTACTS

TIMETABLE

Friday 8 June 2012 

HE sector conference

9:30-17:00:

9:30-10:00 Opening business, including:

Appointment of tellers

Adoption of the report of the Congress Business Committee

Adoption of minutes of HE sector conference 28 May 2011 - see documents

Report from Michael MacNeil, National Head of Higher Education

10:00-12:30 Debate of motions

12:30-14:00 Lunch (from 12:30) and fringe meetings (13:00-14:00)

14:00-14:45 Timed business: motions HE25-HE27, on USS dispute, to be taken in private session

Debate of motions to continue in open session

17:00 Close of business (followed by Congress session on TPS)

FE sector conference

9:30-10:00 Opening business, including:

Appointment of tellers

Adoption of the report of the Congress Business Committee

Adoption of minutes of FE sector conference 28 May 2011 - see documents

Report from Barry Lovejoy, National Head of Further Education

10:00-12:30 Debate of motions

12:30-14:00 Lunch (from 12:30) and fringe meetings (13:00-14:00)

14:00-17:00 Debate of motions (continued)

17:00 Close of business (followed by Congress session on TPS)

17:00-18:00 Congress business section 1 - TPS dispute to be taken in private session

17:00 Appointment of tellers

Adoption of the report of the Congress Business Committee in respect of TPS motions and amendments only

Report on negotiations

Debate of TPS motions and amendments (motion 1)

18:00 Close of business

MAIN UCU CONGRESS, MANCHESTER

Saturday 9 June 2012

09:30-10:00 Opening business, including:

Address by Terry Hoad, President

Appointment of tellers

Adoption of the report of the Congress Business Committee

Adoption of minutes of Congress 29-30 May 2011 - see documents

10:00-12:00 Section 2: Business of the education committee (motions 2-15)

12:00-12:30 Address by Dr. Miguel Angel Beltrán, Colombian trade unionist

12:30-14:00 Lunch (from 12:30) and fringe meetings (13:00-14:00)

14:00-15:40 Section 3: Business of the equality committee (motions 16-33)

15:40-16:00 Address by Sally Hunt, General Secretary

16:00-18:00 Section 4: Business of the Strategy and finance committee to be taken in open session (motions 34-50)

18:00 Close of first day of Congress business

Sunday 10 June 2012

09:30-11:45 Private session Section 5: Business of the strategy and finance committee to be taken in private session (motions 51-69)

11:45-12:30 Private session Section 6: Rule changes (motions 70-76)

12:30-14:00 Lunch (from 12:30) and fringe meetings (13:00-14:00)

14:00-15:45 Section 7: Business of the recruitment, organising and campaigning committee

15:45-16.45 Section 8: Other employment related business (motions 92-99)

16:45-17:00 Closing business, including

Election results

Introduction of new president

17:00 Close of Congress 2012

FRINGE & SOCIAL EVENTS

Fringe meetings will take place at lunchtimes and immediately after the close of Congress business. The programme of fringe meetings and social events can be found  here (.doc) [1.3Mb]

RELEVANT DOCUMENTS

• UCU434 Congress Agenda: second report of the Congress Business Committee
  UCU434.html | UCU434.rtf
• UCU434A Appendix to second report of Congress Business Committee
  UCU434A.html | UCU434A.rtf
• UCUHE/154 USS report to sector conference
  UCUHE/154.rtf | UCUHE/154.pdf
• UCUHE/153/rtf HE national negotiators' report - pay claim
  UCUHE/153.rtf | UCUHE/153.pdf
• UCU432 General Secretary proposals for reform of the union
  UCU432.html | UCU432.rtf
• UCU425 Minutes of the FE Sector Conference 2011
  UCU425.html | UCU425.rtf
• UCU424  Minutes of the HE Sector Conference 2011
  UCU424.html | UCU424.rtf
• UCU422 Election of FE negotiators for England
  UCU422.html | UCU422.rtf
• UCU421 Election of HE negotiators
  UCU421.html | UCU421.rtf
• UCU420 First report of Congress Business Committee
  UCU420.html | UCU420.rtf
• UCU420A Appendix to first report of Congress Business Committee
  UCU420A.html | UCU420A.rtf
• UCU419 Budget
  UCU419.html | UCU419.rtf
• UCU418 Financial statements
  UCU418.html | UCU418.rtf
• UCU417 Appeal Panel
  UCU417.html | UCU417.rtf
• UCU414 Congress minutes 2011
  UCU414.html | UCU414.rtf
• UCU413 NEC annual report to Congress 2012
  UCU413.html | UCU413.rtf
• UCU397 Congress 2012 registration and arrangements
  UCU398.html | UCU398.rtf
• UCU397 Congress 2012 calling notice
  UCU397.html | UCU397.rtf

Contacts

• Congress arrangements: Sue Bajwa (sbajwa@ucu.org.uk)
• Congress business:(motions, amendments, and standing orders): Catherine Wilkinson, Head of Constitution & Committees (cwilkinson@ucu.org.uk)
• Kay Metcalfe, adminstrator, Constitution & Committees (kmetcalfe@ucu.org.uk)

• Congress 2012 NEC, CBC & Committee's Registration Form (.doc) [151kb]
• Congress 2012 Delegate Registration Form (.doc) [158kb]
• Congress Standing Orders 2011-12 (.pdf) [165kb]