Next steps in EASE campaign

This motion was passed at a UCL UCU branch meeting on 24th November 2025.

UCL UCU notes 

1. That “EASE” and other “Service Simplification” programmes are threatening compulsory redundancies of staff and radically centralising the management of departmental teaching administration.
2. That UCL UCU voted on 11 July to take a series of steps including 
   
   “6. to invoke the UCL Collective Dispute Procedure and notify UCL of a formal dispute to press ‘resolves’ demands (1) a pause/moratorium on EASE and Marcomms projects, and (2) a commitment to no compulsory redundancies of staff arising out of any current or future EASE and Marcomms proposals.”
3. That as a result of that campaign, two AB meetings voted overwhelmingly to pause EASE but Council has overturned that decision.
4. Council has offered two years of pay protection to staff placed at risk of downgrading, but is demanding the EASE process go ahead.

UCL UCU resolves

1. To formally declare a trades dispute with UCL.
2. To trigger a consultative ballot of members regarding industrial action (strike and ASOS) as soon as practicable.
3. To campaign for a Yes vote in that ballot.
4. To encourage the other campus trade unions to do likewise.
5. To take all and any other steps to further this campaign, including a press campaign.