Student Loans staff call for ministers' support
Tuesday 23 February 2010
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EmailGlasgow-based Student Loans workers who are threatened with job cuts have demanded that Labour ministers keep their word and "fight to protect Scottish jobs" prior to the general election.
PCS union activists explained that London-based Business Department ministers were pushing through budget cuts which will mean that the government-run Student Loans Company will have 150 highly skilled posts slashed and see another 45 jobs forcibly transferred to England within the next two months.
PCS branch secretary Colin Young called on Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy to keep his recent promise that the government would "work day and night to help people back into work and create the jobs of the future.
"If he is serious about protecting jobs in Scotland, Mr Murphy should press his colleagues to remove the threat to our jobs and the hardship which will fall on the Glasgow families of those who face redundancy," Mr Young insisted.
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