UCU Update

UCU Branch Officers were informed by the principal Trevor Clay at the Common Interest Group on the 1^st May 2014 - that in excess of 20 staff face potential redundancy.

The college management informed UCU that they would be issuing staff with a Section 188 notice within the next few weeks.

College Management offered no further details, despite UCU requests for further clarification and information.

UCU officers have expressed real concerns regarding ANY redundancy proposals following the damaging round of compulsory redundancies last year.

College staff were sacked as a result of the college management’s choice to implement option 4of the management restructure report in 2013.

The impact of the redundancies last year has been felt by the whole of Chesterfield College’s staff and students.

                                   

UCU said that last years “Curriculum Purchase” exercise was inaccurate and over-estimated “overstaffing”. We were right.

UCU said that classes taught by those made redundant would end up being taught by Zero Hours hourly paid staff and Vocational Coaches, on bargain basement pay levels – we were right.

UCU said that getting rid of experienced staff would impact on quality. We were right.

UCU will continue to negotiate with college management. We continue to urge the current principal Trevor Clay and the Board of Corporation at Chesterfield College to rethink yet another damaging strategy.