- Conference
- 2016 Higher Education Service Group Conference
- Date
- 5 November 2015
- Decision
- Carried
This Conference believes that the growth of privatisation and outsourcing in Higher Education presents a major challenge not just to the provision of services, but also to our ability to organise the workforce effectively.
This Conference believes that the service group’s response to this challenge must be to support branches seeking to resist privatisation and outsourcing, and to seek to follow and organise members and potential members if any services or facilities are outsourced or privatised.
This Conference further believes that it is important to have a service group-wide strategy for this work, which is based on the best information available in order to support effective negotiations, campaigning, and action.
This Conference therefore calls on the Higher Education Service Group Executive to:
i)initiate an annual survey of Higher Education branches in order to gather relevant information about privatisation and outsourcing;
ii)produce a summary report of information gathered and make it available as part of the service group’s annual report;
iii)liase with UNISON’s Private Contractors Unit about the potential for integrating the information with the private contractors database.