Napier staff to be balloted over planned redundancies

UNISON is to ballot for strike action at Edinburgh Napier University, after the employer moved to make at least 60 staff compulsorily redundant.
The union is also calling on Richard Lochhead, the minister for higher and further education, to intervene and enforce the Scottish government’s much vaunted fair work standards. 
The announcement came as the university made the move before student recruitment income is clear and before less drastic alternatives have been exhausted.
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