Stop the cuts! Fund Higher Education NOW!
Sign our petition to stop staff cuts at Durham.
Current students, offer holders, prospective students, parents, residents of County Durham, members of staff, and members of the public are invited to sign our letter to Vice-Chancellor Karen O’Brien asking her to protect education, research, and jobs at Durham by ruling out compulsory redundancies now.
Why we’re in dispute
Durham UCU members overwhelmingly have backed strike action and action short of a strike to defend jobs and protect workloads. We are not prepared to stand by while senior managers decimate our university.
Senior management at Durham University plan to make £20M savings in staff costs over the next two years. Durham University University and Colleges Union do not accept that the proposed cuts are necessary or inevitable.
We believe that management has a choice about how they make savings. In choosing to cut staff, University management is threatening people’s livelihoods and our ability to deliver world-class teaching and research.
Redundancies at Durham are not inevitable.
UCU represents academic and related staff at all stages of their careers, and with all types of employment contract.
Membership is open to all staff from grades 1 to 10.
Locally, Durham UCU negotiates on behalf of its members with the University, and is represented on a number of University committees.
