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GCU combined unions call all staff meeting Monday 21st November
The Combined Unions at GCU have called an all staff meeting next Monday, 21st November The University is facing a £3 million deficit. GCU management plans for a “New York Campus” are 3 years behind schedule and are costing millions … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Cuts, Executive Board, Management
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Cuts, GCU Management, Sustainability
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A dark day for the University for the Common Good
Catering workers in tears as 69 told they will be on the dole two weeks before Christmas. It’s not often that work as a trade union representative brings me to the edge of tears, but as I watched four of … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Management
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Cuts, GCU Management, Staff Survey
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GCU Unions – Management do not have a monopoly on wisdom
The trade unions at GCU note that Court endorsed the Executive proposals on restructuring at their meeting yesterday. Whilst happy with the removal of the threat of 95 compulsory redundancies, which was made by the Executive on 18th May, the … Continue reading
Scottish Parliament hears the case for reform of University Governance
A packed Committee Room 1 of the Scottish Parliament heard calls for bringing democracy to the present system of University Governance – widely seen as ‘not fit for purpose’, in the view of university staff from the majority of Scotland’s … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, EIS, Executive Board, Management, NUS, Support, UCU
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, Executive, GCU Management, Pamela Gillies, UCU, Unison
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GCU Petition to Court launched as UCU and EIS decide for action
Following senior management rejection of the joint Trade Unions offer to work together to lobby the new government for additional funding if the threat of compulsory redundancies was lifted, an all staff petition has been launched to pressurise the University … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, EIS, Executive Board, Management, Support, UCU
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, EIS, Executive, GCU Management, Pamela Gillies, UCU
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Adding insult to injury: GCU management organise line manager workshops for ‘when you have to give bad news’ at GCU
In an incredibly insensitive e-mail to GCU all staff the GCU OD department are now publicly advertising workships for line-managers on ‘handling difficult conversations’. Described as ‘a range of resources available to staff to support during the restructuring process’ the … Continue reading
Posted in Court, Cuts
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, David Beeby, Executive, GCU Management, Keith Ross, Pamela Gillies
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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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Unions at GCU call for emergency meeting of Court, and immediate independent inquiry into Senior Management
Following David Beeby’s announcement at 7.30pm yesterday evening the GCU Combined Union Committee have issued the following statement “The trade unions at Glasgow Caledonian note with astonishment the statement from senior management that the UK Borders Agency has suspended our … Continue reading
Posted in Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, Executive Board, Management
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Court, Cuts, David Beeby, Executive, GCU Management, Pamela Gillies
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New Question on Value for Money regarding iPads for Executive at GCU
A previous post iPad2s for them and P45s for us? pointed out the incongruity of ten iPad2s being purchased for the GCU executive on the same day as the 90 day notices regarding possible redundancies were issued to staff. A … Continue reading
Posted in Cuts, Executive Board, Management
Tagged Combined Union Committee, Cuts, David Beeby
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Unison Member at GCU? Final meeting about the consultative ballot is Thursday 14th
Unison Member at GCU? Here’s a message from Branch Secretary Davena Rankin reminding you about the meetings on the consultative ballot.
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