A similar thing happened to me seven years ago. It's awful. Best of luck Dawn
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Ros Rice
9 years ago
Oh dear! This doesn't reflect well on the University of Liverpool at all.
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Christopher A Birt
9 years ago
This appears to be trade union victimisation at its worst!
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Ciara Kierans
9 years ago
Unacceptable treatment of a committed administrator and trade unionist. It's critical we fight this!
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Nick Green
9 years ago
This sounds desperately unfair; I hope Dawnn fights this.
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Irina Biktasheva
9 years ago
The compulsory redundancy of Dawn Holdman, following Dawn's 28 years of service at the University as a School administrator and the most experienced and hard working UCU Equalities Officer, is a disgrace for the University. As one of those who Dawn helped, and fought for whose equality rights for many years, I call on the University of Liverpool to reinstate Dawn. I call on UCU to escalate this local issue of TU Victimisation, to one of national significance in line with UCU policy.
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Karen Scott
9 years ago
We call on the University of Liverpool to reinstate Dawn.
We call on UCU to escalate this local issue of TU Victimisation, to one of national significance in line with UCU policy.
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Stephen Hall
9 years ago
Seems a brutal way to behave.
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Amanda Dentith
9 years ago
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I worked with Dawn Holdman in the school of School of Population and Behavioural Sciences. She was a lovely boss and always had time for me when I needed help. Very shocked to her about this such a valuable member of staff.
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Stephanie Petrie
9 years ago
This is really unacceptable and I can't believe it was not possible to redeploy this long-serving staff member. If this was used go get rid of a staff member for other reasons this is disgraceful as there are overt disciplinary processes are in place that could have been used but that also allows an employee representation and protections
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Professor Lasse Rempe-Gillen
9 years ago
This is alarming and sounds unacceptable. To use "restructuring" to make a trade unionist compulsory redundant, and then advertising the same role external, is deplorable, and falls far below the standards that I would expect of our institution. I can only hope that sanity will prevail and the decision is reversed, both for Dawn's sake and that of our own reputation as a responsible employer.
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Dr Daniel Hartley
9 years ago
Keep universities fair and equal!
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David Whyte
9 years ago
This is wholly unacceptable. The UCU legal team should take action immediately, and if this gets us nowhere, we should take action.
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Steffi Doebler
9 years ago
This is saddening and disappointing. Dawn should be reinstated immediately.
A similar thing happened to me seven years ago. It's awful. Best of luck Dawn
Oh dear! This doesn't reflect well on the University of Liverpool at all.
This appears to be trade union victimisation at its worst!
Unacceptable treatment of a committed administrator and trade unionist. It's critical we fight this!
This sounds desperately unfair; I hope Dawnn fights this.
The compulsory redundancy of Dawn Holdman, following Dawn's 28 years of service at the University as a School administrator and the most experienced and hard working UCU Equalities Officer, is a disgrace for the University. As one of those who Dawn helped, and fought for whose equality rights for many years, I call on the University of Liverpool to reinstate Dawn. I call on UCU to escalate this local issue of TU Victimisation, to one of national significance in line with UCU policy.
We call on the University of Liverpool to reinstate Dawn. We call on UCU to escalate this local issue of TU Victimisation, to one of national significance in line with UCU policy.
Seems a brutal way to behave.
I worked with Dawn Holdman in the school of School of Population and Behavioural Sciences. She was a lovely boss and always had time for me when I needed help. Very shocked to her about this such a valuable member of staff.
This is really unacceptable and I can't believe it was not possible to redeploy this long-serving staff member. If this was used go get rid of a staff member for other reasons this is disgraceful as there are overt disciplinary processes are in place that could have been used but that also allows an employee representation and protections
This is alarming and sounds unacceptable. To use "restructuring" to make a trade unionist compulsory redundant, and then advertising the same role external, is deplorable, and falls far below the standards that I would expect of our institution. I can only hope that sanity will prevail and the decision is reversed, both for Dawn's sake and that of our own reputation as a responsible employer.
Keep universities fair and equal!
This is wholly unacceptable. The UCU legal team should take action immediately, and if this gets us nowhere, we should take action.
This is saddening and disappointing. Dawn should be reinstated immediately.