Industrial Relations
Sussex Downs College is currently in dispute with NUT and NAS UWT over a variety of contract issues.
On 24 April 2009 UCU lecturers took part in a one day strike in an attempt to force SDC to implement the nationally agreed pay scales for FE College. SDC is one of only eight FE College in England that has failed to implement the 2004 national agreement.
Three one day strikes took place in 2009 by the teaching unions at Park College in a dispute over newly appointed teaching staff at the College not being appointed on nationally agreed sixth form contracts.
In March 2010 a series of redundancies of teaching and support staff were announced.
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