Thursday, March 24, 2011

Stirling University to face 'protracted' strikes

Stirling University faces "protracted" strike action over plans to make 17 members of staff compulsorily redundant, union bosses have said. The University and College Union said it would ballot members over cuts at the Institute of Aquaculture, endorsed by the university's governing body.

The posts have been axed because of "continued financial losses" at the department, the university said. Union members are also planning strike action on Thursday over pensions. The union claims no university has ever made more than one or two individuals compulsorily redundant. And bosses said the Institute of Aquaculture was being targeted because it did not make a "surplus" in the university's internal budget process. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
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