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Withholding pay – GCU Management steps back from the brink – but needs to go further
Unions at GCU welcomed the ‘clarification’ statement released by HR following our protestation at the proposal to withhold wages from staff involved in action short of a strike. Following our protests and communication with HR, all staff have now had … Continue reading
Why we are striking at GCU – EIS
ON Tuesday 23rd October, Members of the EIS employed in Higher Education will be striking. At the request of the Caledonianunion blog, Dr Nick McKerrell Convenor of the Combined Unions at Caledonian and the EIS branch sent a message to … Continue reading
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Tagged EIS, Nick McKerrell, Salaries, UCU, Unison, Unite
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GCU Court talks to (some) GCU staff – a welcome, but very small step
Some faltering steps which might lead to a more meaningful dialogue between GCU Court and university staff were taken when recently elected Court chair Tony Brian led an ‘Executive Briefing’ on ‘Governance and the role of Court at GCU’. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Executive, Jan Hulme, Nick McKerrell, UCU
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Management at GCU spurn trade union olive branch and continue with threat of redundancies
To begin with a quote from the message management formally gave the Unions at the consultation meeting yesterday “We are not at this moment in a position to guarantee no compulsory redundancies, but have stated that we will remove the … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, EIS, Executive Board, Management, UCU, Unison
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, David Beeby, Executive, GCU Management, Nick McKerrell, Pamela Gillies, UCU, Unison
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Is the Principal listening at Glasgow Caledonian? Invite to Silent Protest@Listening Event
Week 5 of our campaign against the 95 redundancies has begun. Last week saw the plans for the cuts to Central Service Clusters and a series of all staff meetings convened by management. The initial union response was circulated last … Continue reading
“Every page of the document shows that this exercise is clearly cost driven”…… Unions first response to GCU management’s ‘restructuring’ proposals
Firstly the Trade Union acknowledges we were given sight of this document (Cluster Proposals ) 48 hours before it was issued to all staff. However it is very difficult to understand the proposed changes without seeing the current structures, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, Executive, GCU London, GCU Management, Nick McKerrell, Pamela Gillies, Salaries
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Executive given new iPad2s, plus pay rise at GCU, while staff face compulsory redundancy threat…. oh and four students from GCU London flown up by EasyJet for classes here (allegedly)
iPads for them? And P45s for us? We’re sorry but that’s just not acceptable in a well managed university. There was incredulity expressed at a packed meeting of GCU staff in Glasgow Caledonian on Monday 28th March, when visiting MSP … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, Executive Board, GCU London, Management, Support
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, Executive, GCU London, GCU Management, Nick McKerrell, Pamela Gillies, Salaries
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Live blogging from UCU picket line at GCU
7.26 am Watch this space…. 7.30 Taxi driver James wishes us all the best “it’s really about time somebody talked sense … my daughter’s studying mid-wifery at the Cally and you’ll get her support.” Thanks James. 7.45 “No problem’s insoluble … Continue reading
Posted in Cuts, EIS, Executive Board, Management, NUS, Support, UCU, Unison
Tagged Cuts, Executive, GCU Management, Nick McKerrell, NUS, Pamela Gillies, Salaries, UCU, Unison, Vince Mills
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Lunchtime Rally at GCU – Thursday 17th March 12 noon – Say no to 95 job losses!
Following our meeting with management last week GCU Trade Unions and their officials have been called to another meeting this Wednesday. To give a full report back and to keep the campaign against the 95 jobs going we have called … Continue reading
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Report of Meeting with GCU Management Thursday 10th March
The trade union representatives had a meeting with Senior Management this morning from 10 – 12 to discuss the compulsory redundancies announced by management last Thursday evening and the imposition of a number of policies on staff by HR and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuts, GCU London, GCU Management, Jan Hulme, Keith Ross, Nick McKerrell, Salaries, UCU, Unison, Unite
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