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University staff and students on strike in Edinburgh earlier this year
UNIVERSITY strikes have left lecturers and librarians “rejuvenated” and empowered to fight neoliberal reforms, the Scottish TUC Congress heard today.
UCU Scotland official Mary Senior told delegates that the attack on lecturers’ and other workers’ pensions was a “catalyst for so many other grievances to come to the fore,” including the precariousness of work steadily creeping into the sector.
“Lecturers and librarians, professors and administrators have returned to work rejuvenated and refreshed in the knowledge that their employers can no longer take an axe to their pensions and slash their terms and conditions,” she said.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
University bosses refuse to rule out cutting staff
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds