Thread by @DeborahToner

@NCanagarajah has been at pains to "reassure" colleagues @uniofleicester that "only" 60 jobs will be lost. This is not true. Twice as many jobs - in terms of people who currently hold them - will be lost according to the current plans 1/

https://twitter.com/gore_oz/status/1355209074401566723

2/ Half as many insecure or short term jobs will then be created to fill the gaps... temporarily. @NCanagarajah speaks about "net" "full time equivalent (FTE)" posts lost. @leicesterucu speaks about PEOPLE. Twice as many people as the VC's figures quote stand to lose their jobs

3/ Everything about @uniofleicester plans for redundancies is dishonest. Entire swathes of staff in our library & leicester learning institute- without whom teaching couldn't have functioned during pandemic - are earmarked for dismissal

4/ Whole research & teaching areas across several academic schools are being axed. This is fundamentally undermining our learning community in ways that will not be recoverable in the future #NoOneIsRedundant

5/ They say this is all open to consultation & no final decisions have been made. I don't believe them. Do you? If you do, why, if they're so open to feedback & consultation are they operating to a light speed schedule to effect redundancies?

6/ Invitations to individual redundancy consultation meetings were issued within minutes of collective consultation meetings closing. In some cases *before* collective consultation meetings had even happened.

7/ @uniofleicester if no decisions have been made, & you're open to alternatives, what's the rush? I'm sure you wouldn't want to bulldoze staff through this process. Or at least, *be seen* not to??

8/ @NCanagarajah @uniofleicester seem completely impervious to the idea that it's especially cruel to effect redundancies during a pandemic, esp when they insist its for some "strategic" future "vision", but I'm going to say it anyway:

9/ "The health, safety & wellbeing of all our staff & students is our top priority" - your words throughout 2020 pandemic @uniofleicester @NCanagarajah I never really believed you, but I wanted to. And now this. Your hypocrisy is sickening.