🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. Monday’s headlines: 800 uni staff leave jobs, A&E 'under extreme pressure', Southside Community Council meeting tonight + £15k fundraiser for cathedral bells ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... #edinburgh #scotland

Damage is being done to our University by management, with the livelihoods of precarious workers most at risk. This must stop. #anticas #UCU #StopStaffCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2582884...

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/... UCU’s Melissa D’Ascenzio tells MSPs of the impact of the Dundee Uni crisis on workers #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Great work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.

If there's a financial crisis at the University of Edinburgh, it is of senior management's making. Staff and students deserve answers. Why should we trust a senior management team responsible for such mismanagement to 'fix' this? www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...

“These cuts are hitting the most vulnerable staff hardest.” Sophia Woodman, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social branch president explaining the reality of the crisis in HE to the Scottish Education Committee.

New analysis from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social & fellow Unions. Sizeable surplus @ Edinburgh Uni Financial pressure is from irresponsible capital spending & depreciation Management metrics mislead Redundancies hit financial strength & Uni’s academic mission www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...

All @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members who work at UoE: there's an e-vote out on a management offer to settle our local dispute, calling for no compulsory redundancies until July 2026. Look out for your unique voting link. If you didn't get one, e-mail us. Voting closes 11 Dec. 5pm.

Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them. #StopStaffCutsatUoE www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role. Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...

So, no funding to attend academic conferences, limited heating, no printers, can’t pay tutors, no phd scholarships, not enough front line staff, pushing academics to take VR or drop paid hours, cutting academic staff who bring money in?!But there’s money for this?! www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

I want to extend my full support to staff threatened with compulsory redundancy at the University of Edinburgh. I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.

Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies! #StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk

An amazing turnout at our UCU Edinburgh strike rally at the Scottish Parliament @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #WeAreTheUniversity

Great placards from the rally at the parliament #StopaStaffCutsatEoE

More pictures from Holyrood rally @ucuscotland.bsky.social

Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!

Amazing turn out of Edinburgh University staff outside the parliament building right now to defend education against needless cuts @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

Pickets, pickets, and more pickets! Join us and show your support #StopStaffCutatUoE

Lively picket with great music outside Old College

Morning! Here is our schedule today⬇️ Join us at the rally in front of the Scottish parliament at 1pm today!

RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.

RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.

Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...

Intervention from @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh university as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU take three days of strike action this week to save jobs. Strike rally at the Scottish Parliament tomorrow, Wed, at 1pm #SaveHE #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies

UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE

A soggy morning challenging damaging cuts with my @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social colleagues at Old College. Read about the dispute here: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d... #ucu #StopTheCuts

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Solidarity to all at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social! I studied there in 2010-11 and staff were on strike then - I remember one of my tutors explaining that she felt it was part of her responsibility to us as her students to protect the future of academic pay and conditions.

Strike schedule for today (18th) and tomorrow (19th) #StopTheCuts

Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!

#Edinburgh colleagues, remember to contact your MSPs and MP to make them aware of the vandalism senior management are threatening at UoE through compulsory redundancies! #UKHE

Don't cross the picket line! We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff. We are striking for a better university, join us! #StopTheCuts

Back on the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket line, standing with colleagues against senseless cu ts. Cover in The National by Lucy Garcia with quotation from @drjogrady.bsky.social pictured, and in The Herald, www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562598... #UCU #StopTheCuts

Edinburgh University UCU staff are on strike protesting compulsory redundancies and students are protesting the university’s investments in Israel. Staff and students were in solidarity with each other this morning at Old College, which the students closed down. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

Another morning, another picket✊ Come and support striking workers outside the Main Library and get some baked goods! All the proceeds go towards our Hardship Fund to support UCU staff going on strikes

Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!

Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...

Staff-student solidarity for ever!! #StopStaffCutsatUoE 1/2

And here's a whole new shift of picketers later today at CMB! UCU staff saying No to compulsory redundancies.

Warming up from the picket line by calling all my MSPs to ask them to support our struggle against devastating job cuts at the University of Edinburgh #StopStaffCutsatUoE Hope to hear back from you soon @suewebbermsp.bsky.social @lornaslater.bsky.social @foysolchoudhury.bsky.social

I can't join the strikes today as I'm off work recovering from stage 2 cancer. That hasn't stopped me emailing all 8 of my MSPs, inc @patrickharvie.bsky.social, asking them to show support & calling for an inquiry into the University of Edinburgh’s finances & failure to avoid redundancies.

Today we have called a "Lobby Day". UoE's ongoing cuts could lead to up to 1800 compulsory redundancies in addition to the damage already being done. Our political representatives should be addressing this crisis. Flood MSPs' offices with calls! More here: ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

#StopTheCuts and divest from genocide! #StopStaffCutAtUoE

Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!

Strike day tasks so far: (*) Grumpy email to principal sent (*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent (*) Bed stripped and remade (*) Load of woollens washed

big solidarity and love to everyone on strike this week at edinburgh 💕💕

ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!

Great to see such busy picket lines - if you're out there and have pictures/text, please tag us or DM so we can post them here.