Last week, the students’ union council of UCC passed a motion to abolish all policy and mandates from the last five years because of “discrepancies in recording of past minutes and mandates”. It would perhaps be unfathomable to suggest that there were ulterior motives for such a move, so on the face of it, it really does seem that the record keeping over the last five years has been so poor that the current officers of the union were unable to interpret definitively what policies or mandates the union even had. Records of some motions and mandates, the union said, were “lost entirely”. The only … Continue reading Editorial: UCCSU’s “Wipe the Slate” Motion Should Teach Unions to Remember the Basics