UNIVERSITY staff in Cardiff said today that compulsory redundancies are a red line and will join students in a demonstration against threatened job cuts.

Cardiff Metropolitan University UCU members are marking the beginning of an escalating campaign against university job cut plans with a rally tomorrow morning at the Llandaff campus in Cardiff.

The union said that despite receiving a funding boost of £1.73 million from the Welsh government in February, the university is continuing its plan to cut 100 jobs, which is 14 per cent of its teaching workforce.