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“The bottom line is we feel abused and exploited”: Interviews on the picket line

Staff and students standing outside Old College with pickets. One reads "Students and Workers Unite"

Members of the UCU Edinburgh trade union have now completed a 10 day strike action against the University of Edinburgh on issues of pay, working conditions, and pensions. The Student asked several striking staff members online and at a staff rally about the impacts the issues concerned in the strike have had on them, their […]

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Principal’s update on USS pension dispute and industrial action

Peter Mathieson, Principal of the University, sent out an email to all students on March 23 with an update on the USS pension dispute. The email read: “I am very aware that some of you will have incurred additional expenses directly as a result of the industrial action. For example, some students on part-time, blended […]