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No business case for jobs cuts, says union

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Published date23 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Dr Anna Zueva, Huddersfield University and College Union branch secretary, and Dr Gary Allen, Huddersfield UCU branch chairman spoke out after it was revealed that job cuts have been proposed in the School of Arts and Humanities. out of these, seven are technician posts and 30 are academic posts. The job cuts are accompanying a restructuring of taught courses

The union says this will be the third restructuring in this School in as many years. In the summer of 2000, a restructuring led to a reduction in number in full-time academic posts, although most jobs were saved through job shares and people accepting fractional contracts. In the summer of 2021, the Schools of Arts, Design and Architecture and Music, Humanities. and Media were merged to form the School of Arts and Humanities.

Nearly 3,000 people have now signed a petition objecting to the proposals. Dr Allen said: "the University of Huddersfield wants to rush these cuts through with the bare minimum of input from staff, which is why it sent round a consultation document which we believe contains several factual errors.

"These cuts would leave valued and experienced colleagues without jobs and do huge damage to student provision. We cannot allow the university to push ahead unchallenged. We are surveying staff who are impacted and will use the results to help us form counter proposals to protect jobs and student access to the arts and Humanities." In a joint statement regarding the merger, Dr Zueva...

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