Manchester College bosses slammed over huge pay rise as staff face the axe
30 April 2010
UCU today slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000. Figures seen by UCU show that the top earner in 2008 was earning between £170,000 and £180,000. A year later the top earner was on £193,970.
The news comes as Manchester College looks to make 300 redundancies and just months after the college froze the pay of over 3,000 prison education staff. Manchester College is the country's biggest prison education provider, running courses in 80 prisons across the country
UCU said that today's news is the latest in a long line of shoddy decisions by Manchester College management. In January UCU accused Manchester College of throwing the prison education sector into havoc when the college announced plans for 250 job losses from its offender learning teams and a further 50 redundancies in other departments. At the end of last year the college singled out its prison education staff for a pay freeze.
In July 2009 Manchester College teaching staff at the Oakhill Secure Training centre near Milton Keynes walked out over allegations of bullying and harassment. The following month UCU members walked out at the college's main Manchester campus in protest at the sacking of 15 staff members. UCU was furious that the college targeted union activists in a round of redundancies described by the union as punishing and unnecessary.
UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'At a time when many are facing the prospect of redundancy and are being told that their pay has to be frozen these revelations are a bitter pill to swallow. The planned cuts will be a hammer blow to learning throughout the country. The result of Manchester College's actions will be fewer rehabilitation opportunities for offenders and another 300 staff on the dole queue.'
UCU said that today's news is the latest in a long line of shoddy decisions by Manchester College management. In January UCU accused Manchester College of throwing the prison education sector into havoc when the college announced plans for 250 job losses from its offender learning teams and a further 50 redundancies in other departments. At the end of last year the college singled out its prison education staff for a pay freeze.
In July 2009 Manchester College teaching staff at the Oakhill Secure Training centre near Milton Keynes walked out over allegations of bullying and harassment. The following month UCU members walked out at the college's main Manchester campus in protest at the sacking of 15 staff members. UCU was furious that the college targeted union activists in a round of redundancies described by the union as punishing and unnecessary.
UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'At a time when many are facing the prospect of redundancy and are being told that their pay has to be frozen these revelations are a bitter pill to swallow. The planned cuts will be a hammer blow to learning throughout the country. The result of Manchester College's actions will be fewer rehabilitation opportunities for offenders and another 300 staff on the dole queue.'
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