STAFF at the University of Stirling are beginning 15 days of strike action on Monday over salaries, conditions and pay docking.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) voted to withdraw their labour after bosses deducted 50 per cent from the pay of workers taking part in the union’s national marking and assessment boycott. 

The UCU argued that the pay docking has caused real hardship to low-paid workers during the cost-of-living crisis, branding the practice “punitive and disproportionate.”