Please see below on how to book your seat for national Keele rally from Manchester area.
Transport is also available from other areas (see www.ucu.org.uk for details).
Dear all,
Please see below. The Manchester coach will now be leaving from All Saints Park, Oxford
Road at 8am on Thursday and returning after the lobby / rally is finished at 1pm.
There are still seats available, that you can book by contacting Stewart Smyth
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In solidarity,
Stewart Smyth
UCU MMU Branch Secretary
Matthew Brannan <[log in to unmask]> 03/27/08 4:58 pm >>>
We have just been informed that the critical Keele University Council
meeting on Thursday 3rd April will now be starting at 10am. As a result we
are starting the lobby of Council Members at 9.30. We encourage all our
supporters to arrive at Keele by 9.30 if possible.
National Rally at Keele University
3 April 2008: 9.30 to 13.00
Keynote speakers: Sally Hunt, General Secretary, UCU
Roger McKenzie, Regional Secretary, Midlands TUC
As you probably know by now, Keele University is proposing to close the
highly respected School of Economic and Management Studies (SEMS) and
replace it with a new Business School, which will result in the loss of half
the academic staff (38 out of 67 posts). Senior management are still
refusing to withdraw the threat of compulsory redundancies, despite local
and nationwide opposition since the announcement in December 2007.
We know this is the thin end of the wedge. Getting away with this now will
mean it is rolled out across this University and others, as well as
providing an example for managers in other sectors.
UCU members at Keele are currently taking Action Short of Strike and members
in SEMS have also taken one day¹s strike action. Keele Students¹ Union has
also been actively supporting UCU¹s stand.
The final decision regarding the proposals is being made on 3 April by the
University Council. Local support has been brilliant but the members at
Keele are seeking your support to attend a national rally.
Please come and bring all your friends
If you cannot make the rally please pass on your support to the Local
Association: Mike Ironside - [log in to unmask] AND let the Chair
of the University Council know, by 2 April, that the current situation is
totally unacceptable: Ian Dudson - [log in to unmask]
For more details of the rally, or to let us know you are coming, please
contact Mike Ironside as above, or Julie Cooper at UCU West Midlands region
([log in to unmask]), 0121 634 7386
This message comes to you from the Keele UCU Action Committee, endorsed by
Keele UCU branch. The rally is endorsed by UCU nationally.
Please circulate this email widely through your contact and distribution
lists.
Best regards,
Matthew Brannan
On behalf of Keele UCU
--
Dr. Matthew J. Brannan
Department of Management
Keele University
Paul Brook, Membership Secretary,
British Universities Industrial Relations Association [www.buira.org.uk]
Senior Lecturer,
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School,
Aytoun Street,
Manchester M1 3BH
0161 247 3993
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