PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
University and College Union marking boycott (14 May 2023)

Motion Details

That this House notes that workers in higher education have endured over a decade of pay cuts, rising workloads, equality pay gaps and rampant casualisation; supports the recent industrial action that members of the University and College Union were forced to take in defence of pay and pensions; condemns plans by some vice chancellors, as instructed by the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association, to dock up to 100 per cent pay of staff that are working full-time but taking part in a legal marking boycott; calls on the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association to address the concerns of university workers, withdraw the instruction to vice chancellors to implement punitive pay deductions; and further calls on the Government to demand employers resolve the dispute.

Sponsored by:
Zarah Sultana (Independent)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Labour
14
45%
 
 
Independent
7
23%
 
 
Scottish National Party
3
10%
 
 
Alba Party
2
6%
 
 
Social Democratic & Labour Party
2
6%
 
 
Green Party
1
3%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
1
3%
 
 
Plaid Cymru
1
3%
 
Sponsor List (31 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Lab
Ms Diane Abbott
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Ind
Apsana Begum
Poplar and Limehouse
Lab
Olivia Blake
Sheffield Hallam
Ind
Richard Burgon
Leeds East
Ind
Ian Byrne
Liverpool West Derby
Lab
Dan Carden
Liverpool Walton
SDLP
Colum Eastwood
Foyle
Lab
Mary Kelly Foy
City of Durham
SNP
Patricia Gibson
Lab
Margaret Greenwood
SDLP
Claire Hanna
Belfast South and Mid Down
Alba
Neale Hanvey
Lab
Kim Johnson
Liverpool Riverside
PC
Ben Lake
Ceredigion Preseli
Lab
Ian Lavery
Blyth and Ashington
Lab
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
South Shields
Ind
Rebecca Long Bailey
Salford
Green
Caroline Lucas
Alba
Kenny MacAskill
Lab
Rachael Maskell
York Central
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Lab
Ian Mearns
Lab
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Clapham and Brixton Hill
DUP
Jim Shannon
Strangford
SNP
Tommy Sheppard
Lab
Cat Smith
Lancaster and Wyre
SNP
Chris Stephens
Ind
Zarah Sultana (Sponsor)
Coventry South
Lab
Jon Trickett
Normanton and Hemsworth
Ind
Claudia Webbe
Lab
Mohammad Yasin
Bedford

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