UCU comment on announcement of 632 job losses at Dundee University

Commenting on the news announced at an all staff meeting today (Tuesday 11 March) that Dundee University will be cutting 632 jobs, and that they expect to do so including by using compulsory redundancies, Jo Grady, UCU general secretary, said:  "This is a hammer-blow to hard working and committed workers at the university who are being made to pay the price for egregious management failure.  It's four months since workers first learned that there was a problem, and it feels that very little has happened in the intervening period to turn the university around.   We are clear that there is an alternative to sacking staff and cutting courses, student support and vital educational provision in this city, and we'll continue to do all we can to save jobs and to preserve education in Dundee."

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