As you all know, the management at Salford plan to axe 150 jobs during the next 10 months (6% of the workforce) to save seven and a half million pounds. This will involve most Departments and Schools. Fortunately they have said that they will try to do it by voluntary means, but have not ruled out compulsory – indeed they have already established a Redundancy Committee.
- They talk a lot about strategy and planning, but this looks like crisis management. Indeed only two years ago, they implemented a substantial expansion of ILS (formerly ISD).
- They are still recruiting, with no obvious attempts at redeployment.
- We are very concerned about the continued waste and investment in non-essential projects.
What do you think? Email us at ucu-comms-isd@salford.ac.uk
John Dobson, President, Salford UCU
