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READERS may recall articles passim about the diverting antics of management at my old University, London Metropolitan (LMU).
Those who do will want me to narrow that down considerably — daftness by LMU is not so much a crowded field as a tightly packed few hundred acres. Think Glastonbury, but with a lot more mud being thrown.
Last year, vice-chancellor Malcolm Gillies made threats to derecognise Unison at the university and subsequently suspended two staff members, one of whom was Unison NEC member Max Watson.
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