Lecturers reject management's offer
Russell Steele • Published 10 Feb 2012 16:16
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LECTURERS at James Watt College have rejected an offer which was made by
management in a bid to solve a long-running dispute.
Staff are at loggerheads with bosses in a row over the downgrading of
posts and what they say is a 'refusal to honour signed agreements, including one on no compulsory redundancies'.
Industrial action was cancelled for a fortnight while the offer was discussed but the proposal has now been thrown out and a three day strike will start on Tuesday 21 February.
An EIS union spokesman told the Telegraph that college management were 'in denial' and refusing to recognise they had breached agreements and conditions.
He added that the union was 'always willing to negotiate'.
A spokeswoman for James Watt College said: "Management is disappointed by the rejection of its latest offer and the scheduled resumption of industrial action on the 21 February 2012."
This article appeared in Greenock Telegraph 10 Feb 12
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Stufer
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Feb 10, 19:15
Report commentThere is no room for the oversized, overpaid and incompetent JWC management within the new structure of merged colleges. The sooner they accept this the sooner the business of education can resume!
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askelvis
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Feb 10, 22:16
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Stufer
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Feb 11, 09:58
Report commentTeaching staff at JWC have been severely under the cosh for severel years now by the management now known as the most "toxic" in the sector.
What we are witnessing are lecturers defending the quality of education given to students. This has steadily been getting eroded since the appointment of key figures in the JWC leadership team several years ago. Full time students are sometimes only in class a day and a half per week.
The college management are still attempting to force their own agenda in an attempt to save their own overpaid positions in a new structure that doesn't have a place for them.
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Flipper21
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Feb 11, 18:18
Report commentWould Pinder consider allegations of corruption at JWC in the very near future!
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Feb 12, 23:25
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Stufer
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Feb 13, 09:43
Report commentI'm sure she would deny it, she wouldn't want to jeapordise her half a million quid pay off and 75K per year pension when she steps down in a couple of months.
What is needed is a completely neutral and independent body to scrutinise the college accounts.
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Feb 13, 23:09
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