Branch Motions

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 14 October 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Solidarity with UCL Cleaners Fighting Redundancies

MOTION 2: Solidarity with BCU UCU Members

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 12 August 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Disclose and Divest – General Regulatory Council Tribunal Motion

MOTION 2: HE14 Post-Congress 2025 Motion: Industrial Action and Trade Dispute

MOTION 3: Divest for Palestine

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – 17 June 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motion was passed.

MOTION: USS: Conditional indexation

EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING – 30 April 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motion was passed.

MOTION: Motion on UK Supreme Court Ruling

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 9 April 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motion was passed.

MOTION: Support a Trade Dispute with Secretary of State for Education over Funding

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 11 March 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Solidarity with SOAS Tutors 4 Change

MOTION 2 (for submission to Congress 2025): Conference on political blackness

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 11 February 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Support for the Oxford Worker Justice project

MOTION 2: Motion for Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) Meeting Funding

MOTION 3: Solidarity with UCU branches defending jobs, education, and research in higher education

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 14 January 2025

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Motion in support of the Climate and Nature (CAN) Bill

MOTION 2: Motion in Support for UCU Candidates in the Upcoming Elections

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 5 November 2024

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Ethical investment at Oxford University: EIRRS representation

MOTION 2: Workplace Day of Action for Palestine, 28 November 2024

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 22 October 2024

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Support for legal costs for Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly

MOTION 2: No Downgrading of Department for Continuing Education Tutors

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – 9 July 2024

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Solidarity with Unite UCU

MOTION 2: Rhodes Must Fall Oxford (RMFO): Decade Two

MOTION 3: Goldsmiths UCU (GUCU) Support Fund

MOTION 4 (change to branch rule 8.1): Amend Oxford UCU Local Rules to increase the number of elected committee posts

MOTION 5 (change to branch rule 6.3.4): Amend Oxford UCU Local Rules to increase the value of donations which can be approved by the committee from £50 to £250

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 30 April 2024

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Solidarity with Oxford Whistleblowers

MOTION 2 (for submission to the Special HESC): Opposing Restrictions for Worker Migrants in the UK

MOTION 3 (amendment to a Congress motion): Amendment to Motion SFC13 “International Solidarity with Marginalised Workers and Unions Abroad

MOTION 4 (submitted as Congress motion): Gaza Family Scheme

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 12 March 2024

The meeting was not quorate. Members voted in favour of the motion below (for submission to Congress 2024), which was subsequently approved by a branch Committee meeting.

MOTION: Introduce Caste as a Protected Characteristic

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 30 January 2024

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: Keep Campsfield Closed Solidarity Donation

MOTION 2: Calling for a Special Higher Education Sector Conference on the future of the Pay and Conditions dispute

MOTION 3: Solidarity with Palestine and answering Palestinian HEIs’ calls

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING – 7 November 2023

The meeting was quorate and the following motions were passed.

MOTION 1: OXSAAF (Oxford South Asian Alternative Forum)

MOTION 2: Oxford Divest Borders