EDINBURGH University staff went on strike today as the employer threatens to deduct workers’ pay.

The action is the latest in the long-running national dispute between universities and the University and College Union (UCU) over pay, pensions, workload and casualisation.

Edinburgh University is one of a number of institutions which has threatened to deduct 50 to 100 per cent of the wages of workers taking part in the UCU-organised marking and assessment boycott.