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Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - Hal Dalwood - 8th October 2010
Here in Worcestershire we heard this week that ALL Birmingham Archaeology staff have been handed their redundancy notices, and that they are now in the consultation period.
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - Unitof1 - 8th October 2010
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_01/Buteux.htm
about 10 mifas in this "unit" http://www.barch.bham.ac.uk/staff/atoz.html
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - vulpes - 8th October 2010
no one else got anything to say on this thread? No?
Perhaps someone from B'ham?
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - Dirty Boy - 8th October 2010
I expect they'd all be out down the pub commiserating.
It's sad. Birmingham was very very first unit straight out of Uni, and I've always been grateful to them for giving me my first digging job and helping me get a foot in the door. I hope they can find work somewhere - the vast majority of people there were always fantastic archaeologists.
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - BAJR - 8th October 2010
It would be good to know more... as I have jsut got back from site.. I will ask more on Monday... bad news... and did anyone see it coming? What the hells going on?
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Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - Dirty Boy - 8th October 2010
From various friends of friends posts on Facebook I think its been expected for some time
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - J.McGraw - 8th October 2010
Dirty Boy Wrote:I expect they'd all be out down the pub commiserating.
It's sad. Birmingham was very very first unit straight out of Uni, and I've always been grateful to them for giving me my first digging job and helping me get a foot in the door. I hope they can find work somewhere - the vast majority of people there were always fantastic archaeologists.
Ditto for me - BA gave me a work placement, then a few months digging for the summer, my very first digging job. Very sad to hear about this.
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - Drunky - 8th October 2010
It is bad news i met some guys from Brum the other day at a conferance, not that i ask but it never came up
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - vulpes - 11th October 2010
No more on the whys and wherefores of this? Or are we still all too busy writing silly little haiku, drinking in imaginary bars and slating anyone who's ever stopped to think about why we do what we do? :face-huh:
Birmingham Archaeology redundancies - Pedant - 11th October 2010
Usually in local government if you're in the consultation period you won't have been given notice - just informed that redundancies are looming. The consultation period is there for the managers to decide (together with the unions) how they're going to proceed, and then once they have the selection prcedure set up, to make the decisions. Not sure if this situation is the same, but even if all staff have been sent letters that may not mean that all staff are going to lose their jobs. So there may be some hope. The last time I was in such a situation, all field staff were told they were at risk and about half went.