I thought I should send a progress report on what's happening (that I
know about) in protesting to NRC about the redundancy notices issued to
Phil Bunker, Bob McKellar and others at NRC in Ottawa.
After considerable discussion, I decided that my own best action was to
coordinate a letter to the Canadian Minister of Industry from a small
group of senior British scientists. That has now been sent.
Tucker Carrington (Jr) and Wolfgang Jaeger are coordinating a letter to
be sent from the Canadian scientific community.
Several other people intend (I believe) to send letters on behalf of
specific groups such as the UK RSC Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group, the
RSC Gas Kinetics Group and the IoP DAMOPP Division.
Beyond that, there were a lot of requests to set up an online petition
that people in the community could sign. Eckart Wrede tells me that he
is in the process of organising that and will post an announcement here
when it is actually available for people to add their names.
I don't know of specific action being taken in the USA or in other
countries.
Jeremy Hutson
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University of Durham
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