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THOUSANDS of education workers and three trade unions will join forces in a strike next week to demand an end to pay cuts and redundancies in Scotland’s crisis-ridden college sector.
More than 2,000 members of Unison and 100 of Unite at colleges across Scotland, including librarians, IT specialists, technicians, administrative and business support staff, cleaners, canteen workers and estate management staff, will take to picket lines on Thursday next week.
The action will coincide with teaching union EIS-Fela staging a national day of action and is expected to bring the colleges to a standstill.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
