[Air-L] HELP NEEDED - Please sign our petition to save jobs at Newcastle University

Tue May 27 08:57:36 PDT 2025

Sending solidarity Adam to all your colleagues at Newcastle. It is truly a scary time to be working (or unemployed) in the UK Higher Education sector, but I’m heartened to see the collective efforts to resist the callous actions of senior management at many institutions. You can count on the AoIR community to get behind you ✊

All the best,
Zoe
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From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Adam Badger via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 11:14 am
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Air-L] HELP NEEDED - Please sign our petition to save jobs at Newcastle University
Greetings friends,

I hope you’re all as well as you can be!!

I just wanted to take the opportunity to share this petition written by colleagues at Newcasle university. For anyone that doesn’t know, we’re facing a very scary redundancy crisis here, with out of control senior management (earning £millions) making huge cuts to teaching and support staff at the university while increasing spend on large capital projects (£275million construction just agreed for a building we don’t even need!!)

The university is in a strong cash position and could clear all debts and still be cash positive. They are making redundancies because of a *shortfall* against estimated income (NOTE – not a deficit… They aren’t losing money… just making less than they planned). To fill this ‘gap’ they’re coming for our jobs.

Here in the UK, we’re one of the first dominoes that management is trying to topple. If they win making these redundancies, other universities WILL be affected.

Please share support by signing this petition. https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fp%2Fend-unnecessary-redundancies-at-newcastle-university&data=05%7C02%7Czoe.glatt%40microsoft.com%7Cd767d48fada7471d69d608dd9d31197e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638839556417114541%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UTCthxewQHQnWGQbJkuj7r1V8c%2FRhnnz3kiZpKwQvCI%3D&reserved=0<https://www.change.org/p/end-unnecessary-redundancies-at-newcastle-university>

It seems wild to me that our senr. Management care more about their broader perception from things like this than the health of their institutions, the morale of their staff, or the quality of education for their students, but this is the position we find ourselves in, and so your help is really REALLY valuable to us right now.

Please do sign, and share with other networks and pals.

We can win this fight, but we need your help.

Love and solidarity

Adam

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