UCU held a mass meeting at Salford University

UCU held a mass meeting at Salford University in protest at the threatened redundancies - management has just added another 70 to the 144 already under threat.  There are widespread rumours of oursourcing to private companies-. The turnout to the meeting was so big that a new room had to be sought, and outside a spontaneous demonstration cut the traffic on the A6. Passing cars hooted their support.

The branch has put a series of demands to management and now has a mandate to ballot for strike action if there is no response.

These job losses are about privatisation and providing education on the cheap. What we need is a national strategy over job losses which doesn't leave individual institutions to fight alone, and which allows us to fight for jobs and education.

Pura Ariza

UCU NW RegionalSecretary