University staff in Edinburgh vote for strike action

UNISON members have voted for strike action – by 100% in a 75% turn-out – in a bid to keep Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University as their employer.
The members who voted are campus operations staff, including supervisors, security officers, facilities assistants and members of the grounds team.
They are at risk of seeing their jobs outsourced as the university finalises a tendering exercise covering the whole ancillary workforce, some of whose work is already contracted out to