Union members at Edinburgh Napier voted for industrial action by more than 50 percent this week over a national pay dispute.
The union represents professional services staff in universities including cleaners, library workers, administrators and IT technicians. Unison Scotland represents 150,000 members delivering public and related services, and nationally, Unison represents 1.3million workers.
According to information from Unison, university staff have not received pay awards “anything close” to current levels of inflation. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 employers imposed pay awards of 0 percent, 1.5 percent and 3 percent respectively.
