Tag: Catering
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Time to take our catering back, and reward our catering staff properly
Some years ago, a campaign by the Combined Union Committee saved the jobs of the majority of GCU catering staff – due to be paid off by Glasgow Caledonian University just before Christmas 2016. This involved a threatened boycott by staff if the redundancies went ahead, and also led to questions in the Scottish Parliament.…
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Victory for GCU Catering workers – no jobs to be lost
Campus Unions reacted positively to the news today that an apparently positive ending had been reached to the catering fiasco which had been threatening Cordia workers jobs. According to a statement from the university, reported in the Evening Times here, an agreement has been reached to transfer the catering contract to BaxterStorey with staff now…
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GCU staff vote for boycott if catering jobs are lost
Despite being called during one of the busiest teaching days of the week, and at less than a week’s notice, a concerned meeting of university staff voted unanimously that they would boycott any new outlets set up by outside caterers if such a move had resulted in job losses for our existing catering staff. The vote took…
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Reprieve for threatened workers as catering common sense is applied at GCU
It’s official – Xmas is not cancelled – catering contract change postponed till April 2017 Although it’s not the end of the story, 69 families will now be facing Christmas with a much happier outlook following the welcome announcement that the early termination of GCU’s contract with Cordia is…well… terminated. The staff were told just…
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