Press Release – Tertiary Education Union
TEU members across all campuses at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) are expressing solidarity with colleagues in the School of Business – Auckland Campus, who are facing job cuts, and opposing management’s proposal to reduce staffing by 3 FTE. A petition has been launched calling on EIT Chief Executive Chris Collins to halt the disestablishment of positions.
EIT’s job cuts proposal is a reaction to a reduction in international student enrolments at the Auckland Campus in the Schools of Business, Computing and Health Science which has contributed to a projected budget deficit.
However TEU EIT Auckland Delegate Stuart McAdam, who is one of the affected staff says, “the proposal to cut jobs has little or no financial benefit to EIT and the affected staff are highly-qualified and experienced. They are an asset to EIT and will be of considerable use to Te Pūkenga in the future. To remove them now will mean a loss to EIT and to Te Pūkenga but most of all to the students who will lose the relationships that they have with staff who care about them.”