Strike day 7 March

1 March 2006

AUT closed down campuses across the UK on the 7 March, now indefinite of action short of a strike has started.

Lecturers, researchers and academic related staff have sent a clear message to vice-chancellors that they are prepared to take industrial action on university campuses throughout the UK.

Views of some of the picket lines can be seen below. The northern most picket line was in Orkney which is a branch of Heriot-Watt, whose main campus is also featured below as is the most northerly on the mainland, Robert Gordon University. Our newest branch managed to gather enough members to picket outside the stunning Glasgow School of Art,  and finally one of our oldest branches at Edinburgh University.

There are also two images of the speakers at the Edinburgh rally with student leaders speaking in support of our action along with the AUT president and Colin Fox MSP. There may have been a split stage but there was an unified message.

You can help by getting your MSPs to support a motion on pay, see link on right.

In Scotland rallies took place across the country at lunchtime on the 7 March.

Aberdeen
Aberdeen Trades Union Social Club

Speakers: David Bleiman AUT Assistant General Secretary
Jenny Duncan, NUS Scotland Women's Officer
Richard Baker MSP

Rosemary Byrne MSP

Dundee
Marryat Hall

Speakers: Angela Roger AUT Vice-president
Joe Weir President of Abertay Dundee SA

Francis Curran MSP

Edinburgh

Dunedin Room, Radisson SAS Hotel

Chair: Alan Walker Edinburgh University AUT President

Speakers: Steve Wharton, AUT President
James Alexander, NUS Scotland Depute President
Ruth Cameron, Edinburgh University SA President

Steven Findlay, Heriot-Watt SA President.
Colin Fox MSP

See Pictures below.

Glasgow

Exhibition Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Speakers: Alastair Hunter, AUTS President
Kevin Morris NUS Scotland Executive

Sarah Tomlinson Acting President Glasgow University SRC

Tommy Sheridan MSP

Stirling
Cowane Centre, Stirling, 12 noon

Speakers: Deborah Shepherd AUT Regional Support Officer
Melanie Ward, NUS Scotland President
Carolyn Leckie MSP

Pictures below of two of the most Northern and its sister branch, our newest and one of the oldest LAs, all on pickets lines. Followed by two images from the Edinburgh rally.