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Uni staff call strike
HUNDREDS of lecturers and support staff at London Metropolitan University have voted for strike action in a row over massive jobs cuts.
The university in Holloway Road has been hit by funding cuts and repayment demands of more than £50million after it wrongly claimed government funding for students who did not finish their courses.
Union chiefs have criticised London Met for plans to claw back the deficit by axing at least 550 academic and staff posts – entire departments will be shut down under the proposals.
The University College Union, which represent more than half of the university’s academic staff, say they were left with “no option” but to ballot for industrial action.
UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: “The situation at the university is an absolute nightmare, but the management there needs to sit down and start properly discussing what we can do to improve matters.
“Announcing a poorly thought through redundancy scheme in the middle of talks aimed at avoiding redundancies was insensitive and downright stupid.”
The vice-chancellor, Brian Roper, quit in March after emailing staff with details of the cuts.
A march, leaving City University in Angel and ending in Archway, is planned on Saturday May 23 in support of LMU central London. |
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