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Future of Goldsmiths: staff and students hold virtual picket
Virtual picket held by Goldsmiths staff and students. Pic: GUCU
Academic staff and students at Goldsmiths, University of London held a virtual picket in response to senior management’s restructuring plan that involved laying off staff and further marketising courses.
The five-day picket that ended on March 5 was part of the industrial action initiated by the Goldsmiths branch of University and College trade union (GUCU) in January 2021.
The action, which the university said it deeply regretted had happened, involves a marking boycott and refusal of face-to-face teaching due to Covid concern.
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At least nine universities in the UK have announced plans for staff job cuts to save money, in moves branded as “insensitive” and “despicable” by academics struggling to support students through the difficulties of the Covid pandemic.
In London, the University and College Union is fighting potential job losses at three institutions: the University of East London; Goldsmiths; and Senate House, University of London. Elsewhere, redundancies are planned at the universities of Liverpool, Leeds, Leicester, Southampton Solent, Brighton, and Dundee.
Brunel University’s UCU branch warned this week that restructuring plans could lead to redundancies in professional services. But a spokesperson for the university insisted they would not be cutting any jobs.
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