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Union plans to boycott and "grey-list" London Met - latest 31 August 2009

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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407959&c=2
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Good on them, support your staff, their on your side (well UCU are..) so you should be on theirs.
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News in brief

10 September 2009

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408036&c=1

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UCU boycotts London Met

The UCU has launched an academic boycott of London Metropolitan University. As reported last week on our website, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, the union claims that managers refuse to negotiate on job cuts or put them on hold until a review of the university's operations is complete. London Met insists that it has been in formal consultation with all campus unions since May. The institution has been forced to repay more than £36 million to the Higher Education Funding Council for England after inaccuracies were discovered in its student-data returns.
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George rallies to the lecturers’ jobs cause


Islington Tribune - by TOM FOOT
Published: 18 September 2009

University board member a target for union action

GEORGE Galloway is expected to rally lecturers and staff of London Metropolitan University outside the offices of one of its board members today (Friday).

The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow has been invited to join a demonstration outside the Kingston Smith city accountancy firm in Devonshire House, Goswell Road, Angel, from 1pm.

The University College Union, representing academics, and Unison, representing university staff, is targeting LMU board member Sir Michael Snyder in the latest protest against plans to sack hundreds of staff at the Holloway campus.

In a joint statement, the university’s UCU and Unison branches called for members to attend to let Mr Snyder know that staff “won’t go down without a fight”, adding: “Michael Snyder is the LMU board member who told us in 2007 that “City Fat-Cats Deserve Their Pay and Our Respect” – now he’s one of those telling staff we should pay for the mess that’s been made of the university finances.”

Mr Snyder, a senior partner of leading chartered accountancy firm Kingston Smith, wrote an article in 2007 for the Observer newspaper claiming City “fat cats” should not be “slated for the size of their bonuses” and that they are “worth their large salaries – and even larger bonuses”.

The article has enraged union chiefs at London Met who are fighting proposals to axe 550 full-time staff posts – roughly a quarter of the university’s workforce.

London Met, the biggest university in London, is proposing to close entire educational departments to repay a £34.5million debt it owes to the government for false claims to the Higher Education Funding Council of England.

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http://www.thecnj.co.uk/islington/2009/091809/inews091809_09.html

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