Hundreds of employees in fear of losing their jobs at the University of Otago united yesterday in vocal opposition to mass staffing cuts.
Marching through the Dunedin campus to the clocktower, participants in the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) stopwork meeting waved protest signs and chanted slogans such as "when uni jobs are under attack, stand up, fight back".
This follows the university’s announcement last month that it is seeking to save money because of a $60 million budget shortfall, options including asset sales, reduced course offerings and potentially "several hundred" job losses.
