WORKERS have “emphatically” backed strike action as they battle a pensions “cash grab” at the University of Strathclyde.

Support staff, including technicians, cleaners, plumbers, joiners, electricians and security voted 94 per cent on a 67 per cent turnout to take strike action after the university proposed removing them from the Strathclyde Pension Fund and into new scheme in a bid to access an almost £100 million pension surplus.

Their union, Unite, argues that the move will not only see workers lose thousands in wages in retirement, but is wholly unnecessary in an institution which ran a £46.8 million surplus from an income of £487.4m in 2023.