Elin Jones meets IBERS unions
Ceredigion's Assembly Member Elin Jones today met union representatives to discuss plans to cut 70 full time posts at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS). The issue has raised enormous concern locally and has been the subject of several comments on this blog. Unions represented at the meeting were the UCU, UNITE and Prospect.
After the meeting, Elin, who is also the National Assembly's Agriculture Minister, said:
“I was very grateful for the opportunity to meet union representatives to discuss their reaction to the announcement that there will be 70 posts made redundant at IBERS. I share the unions’ concerns about the current lack of transparency in the whole process and the speed Aberystwyth University intends to carry out these redundancies. I'll now be raising these concerns as a matter of urgency with both Aberystwyth University’s Vice-Chancellor as well as with the Education Minister”.
After the meeting, Elin, who is also the National Assembly's Agriculture Minister, said:
“I was very grateful for the opportunity to meet union representatives to discuss their reaction to the announcement that there will be 70 posts made redundant at IBERS. I share the unions’ concerns about the current lack of transparency in the whole process and the speed Aberystwyth University intends to carry out these redundancies. I'll now be raising these concerns as a matter of urgency with both Aberystwyth University’s Vice-Chancellor as well as with the Education Minister”.
