{"id":51988,"date":"2025-04-02T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/strike-dates-announced-at-robert-gordon-university-in-aberdeen\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:36:36","slug":"strike-dates-announced-at-robert-gordon-university-in-aberdeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/strike-dates-announced-at-robert-gordon-university-in-aberdeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike dates announced at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Lecturers at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen are to strike in a dispute over staff cuts and redundancies.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The EIS union said that <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly3xgnvvygo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 beIoQm\" rel=\"noopener\">after a staff vote<!-- --><\/a> an initial day of strike action was now set for 15 April.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">It will be followed by further strikes on 1 May and 7 May, with additional action planned for the week of 8-12 September.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">RGU announced in November that 135 further redundancies could be made after 130 staff left through a voluntary severance scheme last year.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The EIS said 83% of those who voted backed strike action.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The union&#8217;s general secretary Andrea Bradley said: &#8220;Any move to strike action is taken as a last resort.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;But our members at Robert Gordon have been left with no alternative as they seek to fend off the university&#8217;s cuts agenda.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;The EIS again offers the university the opportunity to bring this dispute to an end by halting its programme of cuts and ruling out compulsory redundancies.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">RGU said redundancies were to ensure the &#8220;long-term financial sustainability&#8221; of the university.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Professor Steve Olivier, principal and vice-chancellor, previously expressed disappointment that EIS members had decided to vote for strike action. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce3qyn75zygo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturers at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen are to strike in a dispute over staff cuts and redundancies. The EIS union said that after a staff vote an initial day of strike action was now set for 15 April. It will be followed by further strikes on 1 May and 7 May, with additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[609,1282,2152,3181,336,849,3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51990,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988\/revisions\/51990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}