Cambridge Printing Back in Business (for now)

Back in January, the Cambridge Printing website was shut down, replaced with a static page instructing its customers to look elsewhere for their printing needs. This amounts to a cynical attempt to make consultation pointless, sabotaging the case for continued printing in Cambridge. Whether fearing repercussions in an employment tribunal or because of a genuine change of heart, the CPSL website now states:

In the meantime we remain very much open for business and we hope that print customers will continue to place work with CPSL

The figures from the past few years show that the workforce are doing more than enough to keep the Press running with per capita production around 30% above industry standard - but their efforts have been frustrated by unsupportive management. So, over the past weeks, union reps have been questioning the Cambridge University Press' plans to close the printing section down, and presenting alternative business models to the Press Syndicate and to management that would see the Printing section make a profit.

Management have now conceded significant reductions in the number of proposed redundancies, as well as some redeployment to other parts of the Press; negotiations continue over numbers, as well as the redundancy package in the event of any job losses.