College assist employees to strike in Scotland subsequent week over pay and circumstances
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ollege assist employees are to take strike motion subsequent week in a dispute over pay, phrases, and circumstances.
Unison stated greater than 2,000 members in schools throughout Scotland will stroll out on Thursday September 7.
The nationwide strike day shall be adopted by a rolling programme of dates for localised motion in schools throughout the nation.
The union claimed that though school employers have elevated their provide from 2% to a £3,500 flat-rate fee over two years, this comes with an actual risk of obligatory redundancies of assist employees.
Effectively members are being requested to pay for their very own pay rise with their job, throughout a cost-of-living disaster
Those strolling out subsequent week will embody librarians, IT specialists, technicians, administrative and enterprise assist employees, cleaners, canteen staff and property administration employees.
Members voted by 93% in April to strike on a turnout of 62%.
Unison additional schooling department secretary Chris Greenshields stated: “College staff were due this pay increase a year ago. It’s unacceptable, even by the standards of the college sector, to take this long to agree a pay deal.
“The employers’ idea of a resolution to the crisis is to threaten our members with compulsory redundancy.
“Effectively members are being asked to pay for their own pay rise with their job, during a cost-of-living crisis.
“We need the same guarantee that has been given to the rest of the public sector that there will be no compulsory redundancies.
“Unison has appealed to the Scottish government to help us find a solution – employers must extend the no compulsory redundancy guarantee to college staff. Colleges are publicly funded but the Government refuses to intervene.
“The minister seems willing to allow the strikes to proceed rather than ensure staff get a decent pay rise.”
Colleges the place Unison has a mandate to take strike motion are: City of Glasgow College, Edinburgh College, Fife College, Glasgow Clyde College, West College Scotland, North East Scotland College, Glasgow Kelvin College and Ayrshire College.
It additionally has a mandate for motion at Dundee & Angus College, New College Lanarkshire, UHI Argyll, UHI Moray, UHI Perth, UHI Inverness, Borders College, Dumfries & Galloway College, South Lanarkshire College, West Lothian College, Forth Valley College, Newbattle Abbey College.
Colleges Employers Scotland has been contacted for remark.