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COLLEGE workers have begun three days of strike action as they take their battle to ministers’ doorsteps.
Educational Institute of Scotland-Further Education Lecturers’ Association (EIS-Fela) members have targeted the constituencies of SNP Scottish government ministers demanding intervention in their dispute over pay and casualisation.
Workers attended large picket lines at Glasgow Clyde College, Fife College and Dundee & Angus College today.
In a letter handed into Mr Yousaf’s Govan office today, EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley wrote: “Audit Scotland recently published a report that cited a real terms cut of 8.5 per cent in college funding since 2021.
“This crisis can no longer be ignored by the Scottish government and its share of the responsibility can no longer be ignored or denied.
“To continue to allow the abandonment of the Scottish government’s own ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy in the further education sector is nothing short of a betrayal of hard-working staff in colleges throughout the country and sets a concerning precedent for the rest of Scotland’s public sector.”
The Scottish government was contacted for comment.
