Over 100 people turned out on a wet Wednesday evening to support the Lobby against Redundancies at the Allerton Building during the Business School Annual Lecture.
It was good to see both staff and students working together to defend higher education. The rally was also supported by representatives of the trade union movement including the Manchester Trades Council and the local community.
Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the Trades Union Council (TUC) addressed the rally as did local MP Ian Stewart (MP for Eccles). Brendan Barber said that he was aware of the situation at Salford and had just come from a meeting with all the Salford Unions.
Ian Stewart said that he come to attend the lecture and had only just become aware that large scale redundancies were taking place at his local University.
Both speakers pledged their supported of the Unions stand against compulsory redundancies, as did all the speakers.
