University of Dundee staff back strike action over threat to jobs

The University of Dundee has been in the grips of a financial crisis (Alamy/PA) -

Hundreds of professional services workers at a university have backed industrial action in a fight for jobs and the institution’s future, a union has said.

Unite said on Friday staff at the University of Dundee had called for strikes, after the employer said there could be up to 700 redundancies as it struggles to deal with a £35 million deficit.