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8th October 2010, 03:12 PM
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.
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8th October 2010, 04:09 PM
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8th October 2010, 06:15 PM
no one else got anything to say on this thread? No?
Perhaps someone from B'ham?
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8th October 2010, 06:59 PM
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.
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8th October 2010, 08:24 PM
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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8th October 2010, 08:40 PM
From various friends of friends posts on Facebook I think its been expected for some time
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8th October 2010, 10:30 PM
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.
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8th October 2010, 11:41 PM
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
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11th October 2010, 12:09 PM
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:
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11th October 2010, 12:37 PM
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.
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Birmingham Archaeology redundancies
