This document, which was distributed to members last month, lays out the current practices we have been made aware of in relation to severance (so called ‘voluntary exit’), restructuring of courses in the name of ‘efficiencies’ (leading the way to potential further and severe job losses) and the lack of transparency with which these things are being done.
We’re pleased to say that members have responded actively to this summary, expressing dismay and anger at management’s underhanded strategies for diminishing provision and career progression by stealth, and support for our commitment to fighting this. At our next branch meetings we will discuss how we can take action to tackle this threat to academic staff (who are already overworked, demoralised and frustrated by the contempt with which they are treated by duplicitous and out-of-touch senior management).