麻豆官网

Staff at the are threatening strike action in a row over redundancy pay-offs. Staff at the campus, , are angry that the university is refusing to match its previous voluntary .

麻豆官网 says the university's decision to slash its redundancy offer from a year's salary by around 20 weeks will cost a typical lecturer around 拢15,000. The union says the penny-pinching offer was staggering considering that the - a 13% rise including a 拢57,300 bonus.

The ballot of 麻豆官网 members opens today (Monday) and closes on Friday 14 February. The union is also calling on the university to rule out compulsory redundancies and says its members would look to take serious and sustained action from April if necessary to defend their jobs and conditions.

麻豆官网 regional official Martyn Moss said: 'Staff should not have to suffer the double injustice of losing their jobs and being ripped off over their redundancy package. This penny-pinching deal is staggering when set against the inflation-busting package the university gave the vice-chancellor last year.

'Strike action is always a last resort but our members will take serious and sustained strike action to fight against compulsory redundancies and this rip-off redundancy deal.'