Strike on at Scottish universities tomorrow

Staff will be on picket lines from 7am at universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Aberdeen, St Andrews and Dundee. Lunchtime rallies will be held in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and St Andrews. See below for full list of locations for pickets and rallies.

Classes will be cancelled across the UK as workers, angry at a 'miserly' pay offer of just 1%, walk out. University staff have faced a real-terms pay cut of 13% since 2008 - a situation Will Hutton recently described as one of the most sustained suppressions of pay since the Second World War.

All three unions said they expected there to be widespread support for the first walk out over pay in universities for seven years. More details on local action can be found at www.ucu.org.uk/hepay13, which is being updated regularly. Also follow the hashtag #fairpayinHE on Twitter.

UCU's Scottish Official, Mary Senior, said: "Staff at Scottish universities are angry they've had to endure massive pay cuts in recent years. This year's miserly 1% pay offer at a time of rising bills and increased pension contributions, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Staff love their jobs, but their goodwill cannot continue to be taken for granted."

Pickets

University of Edinburgh
Picket line from 8am outside the main gate at Old College, South Bridge. 

University of Glasgow
Picket line outside the main gate from 7am on University Avenue. 

University of Stirling
Picket lines outside the front and back gates from 7.30-10.30am. 

University of Aberdeen
Picket lines at Kings College and Forresterhill from 8am. 

Queen Margaret University
Picket line from 7.30am outside the front of the campus entrance.

University of St Andrews
Picket lines will be formed around the university including College Gate, St Mary's College and North Haugh, between 8-11am.

University of Dundee
Picket line at the entrance to the Tower building from 9am.

Robert Gordon University
Picket line from 8.30am outside the new Riverside East building at Garthdee.

Heriot Watt
UCU picketlines from 7.30am at Riccarton campus main gates.

University of Abertay, Dundee
Picket lines at the Abertay Bell Street entrances from 8am

Rallies

Edinburgh

Rally to be held between 12-1pm in Bristo Square. 

Speakers: Mary Senior (UCU Scotland Official), Gordon Maloney (NUS Scotland President), Emma Phillips (Unison Regional Official), Ann Henderson (Assistant Secretary STUC), plus speaker from Unite.

Glasgow

Rally to be held between 12-1pm in Adelaide's Baptist Church, Bath Street.

Speakers: Dave Anderson (UCU Scotland President), Robert Foster (NUS Scotland Vice President), Dave Moxham (Deputy General Secretary STUC), plus speakers from Unite and  Davena Rankin from Unison.

St Andrews

Rally to be held at 12noon in Church Square. 

Dundee

A march starts at Airlie place at 12.10 which will meet up in the City Square at 12.30pm.