The following motion was passed at a quorate branch meeting on 25th June 2025.
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Branch recruitment motion
This Branch notes:
- The current ongoing national negotiations and disputes within FE, HE and Prison Education.
- The current trends in UCU membership and the need for the Union to grow its membership base.
This Branch believes:
- That growing branch and Union membership is the key to making sufficient progress on local and national disputes.
- That the more members the branch and Union have the greater their power to influence our employers.
- That growing membership is a core responsibility of all Branch members.
This Branch resolves:
- To prioritise the recruitment of members and to embed recruitment in all branch activities.
- To have a standing agenda item for each branch committee meeting to discuss recruitment activity being undertaken by/in the branch.
- For the membership secretary of the branch to present a membership report at any Ordinary General Meeting and a yearly summary at each Annual General Meeting.
- To provide support for branch members undertaking activities to recruit non-union colleagues.
- To engage in cross-union collaboration and recruitment activities wherever possible to increase membership across all campus unions.