Aberdeen Trades Union Council is encouraging all our members and affiliates to back the University and Colleges Union (UCU) and to sign the petition to urge Aberdeen University to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies and to seek alternative, more progressive methods for placing itself on a sustainable financial footing.
Click here to sign the petition.
· Through the Voluntary Severance Scheme, the University has already saved the £5.4 million they lost from funding cuts
· The University has also generated an extra £3.2 million in additional surplus
· It wishes to make a further £1.9 million - not due to funding cuts but for additional surplus
· The University has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies in pursuit of their goal
· It is highly likely that staff will be placed "at risk of redundancy" from January 2016