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Unison Member at GCU? Final meeting about the consultative ballot is Thursday 14th
Unison Member at GCU? Here’s a message from Branch Secretary Davena Rankin reminding you about the meetings on the consultative ballot.
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Union delegation to inspect plans for INTO Building this Thursday at Glasgow Caledonian University
Thanks to an eagle eyed member of staff who spotted the public notice in the Evening Times on April 1st, the day that management published its proposals for the restructuring of clusters involving compulsory redundancies. Three years after senior management at GCU signed a deal with private company INTO, run by a property developer to…
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Silent Protest asks Management to listen to reason at Glasgow Caledonian University
Despite union posters asking if the Principal was actually listening being removed from noticeboards throughout the university, apparently on the orders of senior management, a dignified, silent demonstration of staff concerned about cuts went on to be held outside the Principal’s official ‘listening event’ in the staff coffee bar, today, Thursday 7th April. The demonstrators…
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Is the Principal listening at Glasgow Caledonian? Invite to Silent Protest@Listening Event
Week 5 of our campaign against the 95 redundancies has begun. Last week saw the plans for the cuts to Central Service Clusters and a series of all staff meetings convened by management. The initial union response was circulated last week and we attended as many of the meetings as we could. All the unions…
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This is not sustainable thinking at GCU. We call on the management to reconsider.
The irony may be lost on some but in a month when specialist researchers in the Caledonian Environment Centre are facing the prospect of job cuts, the University prints a dedicated sustainability issue of the University’s public facing magazine, highlighting the contribution the University is making to the green agenda. Over the past year the…
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Glasgow Caledonian needs a professional and mature approach to HR. It’s not what we’re getting
Whatever the consequences of the proposed re-structuring for staff including the hard pressed staff in HR, one person will not have to deal with the fallout. It seems clear from the cluster meetings held last Week that Keith Ross, the temporary head of HR, will be leaving in June. Keith, it is alleged, has been…
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Scottish media increasingly unhappy with what’s happening at GCU
Media coverage over the weekend indicates a growing disquiet in Scotland’s media over the proposed cuts to our University being pushed through by senior management. The BBC website headlined on the 1st April with “Glasgow Caledonian University sets out 95 job cut plans“, while a day later The Herald reported “University is told jobs cuts…
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First Minister re-iterates ‘Public Sector must avoid compulsory redundancies’. We say GCU management need to listen to this
Less than a fortnight ago, Angela Constance MSP, Minister for Skills and Lifelong learning re-iterated First Minister Alex Salmond’s view that whatever the pressures facing management in the University and College Sector, the Public Sector must avoid Compulsory Redundancies.
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UNISON warns of ‘dark future’ for students if university cuts go ahead at Glagow Caledonian University
UNISON Scotland has condemned planned cuts by Glasgow Caledonian University, claiming students will face a dark future if cuts go ahead. Earlier this month, management announced plans to cut 95 jobs at the university – a move which staff say will hit the most vulnerable students hardest. Today staff will be given an outline of…
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Strike action not ruled out as jobs row intensifies at Glasgow Caledonian University
The University and College Union (UCU) today warned that strike action could not be ruled out at Glasgow Caledonian University after the institution confirmed plans for 95 job losses. The union said plans to increase the number of management posts as frontline staff were sacked were outrageous and called for an immediate recruitment freeze until…
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