UCU today slammed Tyne Coast College for putting 54 staff at risk of redundancy.
Earlier this week Tyne Coast College principal Mandy Morris emailed staff claiming the jobs are at risk because the college must make 'efficiencies' and blamed a 'recognised national decline in higher education.'
The union has written to the college demanding it stops all individual consultation meetings with impacted staff and starts meaningfully consulting with UCU as required by law.
Staff at Tyne Coast College took strike action over low pay earlier in the academic year in a dispute that has still not been resolved and the college recently shut down a sixth form campus.
