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Expenses row at CUP
01.01.70 | Philip Jones
Directors at Cambridge University Press spent nearly £330,000 on travel and entertaining in the year CUP laid off 50 staff. CUP chief executive Stephen Bourne and six other directors are reported by the Cambridge News to have spent £294,439 on travel and £33,911 on entertaining according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. The travel bills cover a total of 209 flights, with Bourne taking 52 flights at a cost of £113,362.
Nigel Gawthrope, the Unite father of chapel for CUP's printing division where the redundancies were focused, said the amounts were "outrageous", adding: "If the people laid off find out they will be disgusted."
However Peter Davison, director of corporate affairs at CUP, said the job losses were the result of changes in the printing industry and were a "separate issue" to directors' travel for the publishing business. Davison added: "Even though it [CUP] happens to be headquartered and have half of its staff in the UK, five-sixths of the business is outside. We all have to travel."
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That's not a news story - it's a business reality in the days of international publishing.
Interesting, none the less. Is Stephen Bourne a pilot?
One flight a week at
MDP unwittingky makes an important point. CUP continue to have an advantage over other educational publishers due to their charitable status. I would lay into them wholeheartedly if it wasn't for the fact that Oxford Uni Press is far worse. OUP is purely an aggressive commercial entity that does not warrant charitable status. It is time the commission reviewed this position and lets smaller publishers like us (who have to pay full tax) compete on a level playing field.
Frankfurt is a no-no for me too. Maybe I can hitch a lift on Cambridge's private jet - they must have a spare seat or two.
I've never been unwittingky before - I think I like it. Anyway, I think CUP will be glad of Dan Brown as this has blown over nicely for them - but the more I think about it the more shocking a travel cost that is. I struggle to justify a cheap-day return at the moment and Frankfurt is a definite no-no this year.
Working at The Press at the moment is deeply depressing. Morale is very low, there is resentment at what is seen as incompetent senior management, bizarre appointments and anger at the weird, self-destructive restructuring. It appears to me and others that the Directors think they'd have been sailing along quite nicely before these recent stories came along, but that just shows how out of touch they are with the average worker. Perhaps they're just too busy cramming down caviar and oysters in business class to care?
No more news on this. As ever - even with the MP expenses - if you're in the firing line just sit tight and it will all blow over in a while. Anger will abate and you'll be fine, ready to start on the prawn sandwiches again. Having spoken to friends at this rival Press I can only say I feel sorry for them. We had a nonsensical restructuring 5 years ago and we've never recovered. Incompetence rules and those that get elevated feel free to exercise liberties on the Opex. It's just distasteful. But it will blow over, no doubt. The poor sods left will have to carry the can for rash ill-thought 'magic bullet' restructures.
But we don't all have to travel first or business class. I was an editor at CUP for years, and at a commissioning peak never spent more than
Has anyone seen the very beautiful limited edition book 'On Anniversaries' by David Crystal? Lovely. Quarter-bound, hardback, boxed, colored end-papers, four-colour (no expense spared) and bearing, on the imprints page, the following: '2009 marks the 450th anniversary of the printing in 1584 of the first book by a practising University Printer, fifty years after Henry VIII granted to Cambridge in 1534 a royal charter to print 'all manner of books''. This from the Press that recently attempted to shut down its Printing Division.
Finding cheap business class airfares is becoming easier and easier with the deepening recession. There used to be a time not that long ago where cheap business tickets were considered anything less than $2,000.
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That's not a news story - it's a business reality in the days of international publishing.
Interesting, none the less. Is Stephen Bourne a pilot?
One flight a week at
MDP unwittingky makes an important point. CUP continue to have an advantage over other educational publishers due to their charitable status. I would lay into them wholeheartedly if it wasn't for the fact that Oxford Uni Press is far worse. OUP is purely an aggressive commercial entity that does not warrant charitable status. It is time the commission reviewed this position and lets smaller publishers like us (who have to pay full tax) compete on a level playing field.
I've never been unwittingky before - I think I like it. Anyway, I think CUP will be glad of Dan Brown as this has blown over nicely for them - but the more I think about it the more shocking a travel cost that is. I struggle to justify a cheap-day return at the moment and Frankfurt is a definite no-no this year.
Frankfurt is a no-no for me too. Maybe I can hitch a lift on Cambridge's private jet - they must have a spare seat or two.
Working at The Press at the moment is deeply depressing. Morale is very low, there is resentment at what is seen as incompetent senior management, bizarre appointments and anger at the weird, self-destructive restructuring. It appears to me and others that the Directors think they'd have been sailing along quite nicely before these recent stories came along, but that just shows how out of touch they are with the average worker. Perhaps they're just too busy cramming down caviar and oysters in business class to care?
No more news on this. As ever - even with the MP expenses - if you're in the firing line just sit tight and it will all blow over in a while. Anger will abate and you'll be fine, ready to start on the prawn sandwiches again. Having spoken to friends at this rival Press I can only say I feel sorry for them. We had a nonsensical restructuring 5 years ago and we've never recovered. Incompetence rules and those that get elevated feel free to exercise liberties on the Opex. It's just distasteful. But it will blow over, no doubt. The poor sods left will have to carry the can for rash ill-thought 'magic bullet' restructures.
But we don't all have to travel first or business class. I was an editor at CUP for years, and at a commissioning peak never spent more than
Has anyone seen the very beautiful limited edition book 'On Anniversaries' by David Crystal? Lovely. Quarter-bound, hardback, boxed, colored end-papers, four-colour (no expense spared) and bearing, on the imprints page, the following: '2009 marks the 450th anniversary of the printing in 1584 of the first book by a practising University Printer, fifty years after Henry VIII granted to Cambridge in 1534 a royal charter to print 'all manner of books''. This from the Press that recently attempted to shut down its Printing Division.
Finding cheap business class airfares is becoming easier and easier with the deepening recession. There used to be a time not that long ago where cheap business tickets were considered anything less than $2,000.
Cheap Business Class Tickets
http://cheapbusinessclassairfares.us/