STAFF have been protesting outside Bradford College this morning after union members agreed to strike over potential job cuts.
The University and College Union had voted to strike over the threat of around 140 job cuts at the college.
Around two dozen staff picketed outside the David Hockney Building on Great Horton Road starting at 7.30am this morning. They will later move to a rally in Leeds, which has been organised to protest government cuts to higher education.
Garaint Evans, who teaches English at the college, said proposed staffing cuts could lead to around 70 support staff, 60 lecturing staff and several middle management workers losing their jobs. The protest came about after the college refused to guarantee there would be no compulsory redundancies. He said: "The college could work with us to find ways to work through this, but at the moment they don't seem to want to do that."
The college has called the union's demands "unrealistic" and said classes and exams were going ahead as normal today.
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