The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh

We Are in Dispute!

UCUE has called strike action from 30 March - 3 April. For more information, see the FAQs.

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UCU Edinburgh have called for targeted strike action next week. ALL-MEMBER strike on Monday 30 March & Wednesday 1 April with mass pickets and mass rally on Wednesday at 12 noon. STRATEGIC STRIKES on Tuesday 31 March, Thursday 2 & Friday 3 April where some members will be on strike. If you are a member, please read the email communication carefully for full details. ... Why is this happening? The University of Edinburgh continues to move ahead with redundancies and cuts. A deal was agreed that the university would serve no redundancies until the end of April in exchange for the union taking no industrial action during the same time period. Part of that agreement involved the promise of meaningful consultation and communication. On the 9 March the branch voted that there had been a breach of that agreement.

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Staff working conditions are student learning conditions – why we are striking 
Staff working conditions are student learning conditions – why we are striking 
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Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground
Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground

There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores:

  1. The University continues to make a sizeable surplus.

  2. What financial pressures exist are significantly due to spiralling depreciation from irresponsible capital spending.

  3. Management continues to use misleading metrics to justify a harmful narrative.

  4. Firing staff will undermine financial strengths, as well as undermine the University’s academic mission.

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A message to our students about the upcoming strike, 17-19 November 2025
A message to our students about the upcoming strike, 17-19 November 2025
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4 Nov, 1-2pm: Migrant Staff Q&A Webinar
4 Nov, 1-2pm: Migrant Staff Q&A Webinar
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Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies
Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies

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The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making
The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making

The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many colleagues. It is discriminatory. If the process is allowed to continue, it will bring about redundancies that are illegal. Longer term, it will also bring about a university that will be badly placed to meet the needs of future students precisely because it has been warped by its own perverse metrics.

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