CONGRESS 2018
FOURTH REPORT OF THE CONGRESS BUSINESS COMMITTEE 

1	Ordering/part withdrawal of existing motions (including those voted back on to the agenda)
Motion 7 - Withdrawal and amendment of text
Under ‘Congress notes’, withdraw bullet points 2 and 3.
At the end of ‘Congress notes’ point 1, add ‘and the need for complete clarity and transparency in the procedures for such ballots’
‘Congress notes’ section to read:
Congress notes the dearth of procedural information available to members re: conducting non-statutory ballots and the need for complete clarity and transparency in the procedures for such ballots.
Motion B1 to be taken in Education Committee business after motion 50.
Motion B14 to be taken in Recruitment, Organising and Campaigning Committee business after motion 70.
Motion B19 – Withdrawal of text
Under ‘Congress notes’, delete bullet point 3.
Under ‘Congress resolves’, delete everything after ‘via a UCU democracy commission’ , that is, ‘including but not limited to discussion of the appropriate number of full time elected officials and how elected representatives are held to account.’
Motion B19 to be taken in Strategy and Finance Committee business after motions 9 and L1.
Motion B23 to be taken in Recruitment, Organising and Campaigning Committee business after motions 70 and B14.
Motion B24 (business of HE sector conference) to be taken after motion HE13.
2	Emergency motions (received in the name of at least 10 delegations)
Congress business
	To be taken at the end of the business of the Equality Committee (after motion 32):
L5	Emergency motion – referendum to repeal the 8th
	Congress notes the Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban, by 66.4% to 33.6%.
Congress believes the scale of the majority and what it means about attitudes to women and their lives is totally inspiring and moving.
Congress sends congratulations to the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, the #hometovoters and everyone who knocked on doors, leafleted and fought, in some cases for decades, to make this absolutely historic result possible.
Congress calls on Theresa May to act now to scrap the abortion ban in Northern Ireland. 
To be taken at the end of the business of the Recruitment, Organising and Campaigning Committee (after motions 70, B14, B24):
L6	Emergency Motion – Justice for Grenfell 
The opening of the inquiry into the deaths of 71 people in the Grenfell Tower disaster has exposed the appalling failings of both the local council and the government.
Almost one year on many families still live in temporary accommodation while the government has still failed to ban the use of combustible cladding. 
Congress offers our solidarity and support to the victims, families, community and to the emergency services that dealt with the disaster.
Congress supports the events organised to mark the anniversary on 14th June and the Grenfell solidarity demo organised by Justice 4 Grenfell, Fire Brigades Union on Saturday 16th June.
Congress agrees to send the national banner to the 16th June protest, advertise it widely and to match the donation made by the PCS to pay towards the cost of the demo, £1000. 

FE sector conference 
To be composited with motion L4 and to become the text of that composite:
L7	FE England Pay		Further education committee
UCU is astounded at the AoC’s previous refusal to discuss the national 2018/19 pay claim until local disputes regarding unresolved 2017/18’s claims are settled, when
1.	FE pay has been cut in real terms by 25%.
2.	33% of principals saw their pay rise by 10% last year.
We believe this refusal to discuss pay for FE workers was both outrageous and reflective of how inept and ineffective the AoC’s role has become.
The FE sector needs a national bargaining forum whose decisions are binding on all who participate and one that benefits all who work in this underfunded and over-stretched sector. For the survival of the sector, FE pay must meet the growing demands of the profession.
Now that the AoC have agreed to receive and discuss the joint unions 2018/19 claim we call on them to make an early offer that meets members’ expectations for an above inflation pay rise and catch up from years of pay cuts.
FESC send solidarity to all the branches that are in dispute over the 2017/18 claim and will ballot members nationally for escalating strike action in pursuit of the 5% 2018/19 claim.

Motion not considered to meet the criteria or emergency motions
Business of the HE sector conference
B26	Defence of the post-92 contract
Conference notes that the post-92 contract is attacked by employers across the sector through:
1.	Attempts to redefine the 550 maxima criteria via the implementation of real hours-based workloads
2.	Attempts to attack the contractual right to scholarly activity time by reducing/diminishing/removing such hours
3.	Attempts to introduce or impose teaching-only contracts with the pretext of the new TEF rules.
4.	Attempts to attack the contractual right to ownership of intellectual property of any work produced during scholarly activity
5.	Attempts to attach the right of ownership of intellectual property and moral rights of any video recording material.
Conference resolves
a.	That a special post-92 sector conference is organised in defence of the post-92 national contract
b.	That defending the post-92 national contract becomes a national priority
c.	That a new activists toolkit is prepared and circulated across the post-92 activists.