Strike action has been disrupting key UK services for well over a year, as unions fight for better pay and conditions
for five days in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions.
The action, which includes staff including lecturers, librarians and technicians, will coincide with the start of term, disrupting freshers’ weeks across the country.Monday 25 to Friday 29 SeptemberStrikes will hit four Scottish universities on slightly different dates to coincide with local action by other unions.London Underground workers have staged multiple days of strikes over the past year in disputes over pay and working conditions.
Finn Brennan, Aslef’s organiser on the Underground, said: “These huge votes, from the high 90s to 100 per cent, in favour of action demonstrate just how determined our members are to protect their terms and conditions at work from the effects of the Government’s attack on TfL funding. A strike planned in July by the RMT was cancelled in favour of a fresh round of talks, but a resolution in that dispute is also yet to be reached.
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