Dear members,
As you know, Kingston’s senior leadership team announced yesterday a barrage of closures to courses and entire departments, and sent emails to numerous members inviting them to “consultations” regarding the future of their employment.
As you will also directly know if you were present at yesterday’s branch meeting, or will be completely unsurprised to hear based on their past conduct, these are “consultations” in name only. Among their many failures to meet their moral and legal responsibilities towards staff and students, management have failed to consult when proposals are at a formative stage, have not given adequate information on which to base our response or adequate time to produce a response, have made no attempt to coordinate schedules with the union so that we can support consultation meetings, or given adequate consideration to suitable alternative employment.
Please see below for a link to our email response to SLT, which sets out in detail the grounds for our disagreement and the simple steps they can take to demonstrate a minimal level of competence and compassion.