After successful meetings with the Unite union, Cambridge University Press will save at least 100 jobs from the chopping block.
According to Cambridge News, the publisher will now only lay-off 58 employees, with only 48 of the job cuts affecting workers in the printing section. Earlier this year, it was projected that the press would cut nearly 160 jobs with the majority of the cuts affecting the printing division.
Ann Field, one of Unite’s national officers, added this statement: “The prospect of losing printing at Cambridge University Press after 425 years of continuous activity was horrific for the workforce, for the community, and for the many generations of Cambridge workers and their families who have supported the university and its press.” (Via Publishers Lunch)