{"id":1515,"date":"2026-09-17T19:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/?page_id=1515"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:59:50","slug":"industrial-action-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/news-and-events\/industrial-action-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Action, Sep-Oct 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strike Schedule, Autumn 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dundee UCU is taking discontinuous industrial action in September and October 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 2026: Monday 21, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Friday 25, Monday 28, Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 2026: Thursday 1, Friday 2, Monday 5, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 7, Thursday 8, Friday 9, Monday 12, Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, Friday 16, Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21, Thursday 22, Friday 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dundee UCU will have an <strong>in-person morning picket from 8 am &#8211; 11.30 am<\/strong> in front of the Tower Building on Perth Road everyday of the strike. Please join us with your determination, humour, stories, baked goods, pets, and most of all, your solidarity and support for staff on strike and the students who support us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alternate Friday mornings at the picket will also feature the famous and much-coveted pizza by our Branch Treasurer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Afternoons<\/strong> will be filled with <strong>daily online pickets<\/strong> and <strong>Branch meetings<\/strong> on Thursdays all on Zoom at 3 pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-995f960e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the afternoon of Thursday, 1 October 2026, we will hold a rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. There will be a coach organised by DUCU to take us to the rally &#8211; watch this space for the sign up form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also welcome you to our <strong>Teachouts at the Steeple&#8217;s Wedderburn Room<\/strong> on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The programme below will continue to develop and we invite you to contribute to and attend these events and encourage your students to come along as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">29 Sep: Understanding and fighting the rise of the far right and Fascism (12-1 pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">30 Sep: AI &#8211; From Behavioural Modification to Cognitive Warfare &#8211; Gabriele Schweikert (12-1 pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Oct: Picket with Jo Grady until 10:20am. Leave for Holyrood. Rally from 12:30-14:00 outside Scottish Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Oct: Pizza on the Picket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Oct: Students from across Scotland will be joining us on the picket line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 Oct: Workshop on dealing with trauma for DUCU members only (12-2 pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7 Oct: Sustainability and AI &#8211; UCU CPD team (12-1 pm)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13 Oct: Workshop on dealing with trauma for Branch Committee members only (12-2 pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14 Oct: tbc (12-1 pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20 Oct: Education and AI &#8211; UCU CPD team (12-1 pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">21 Oct: Art, the public and social change &#8211; Gair Dunlop (12-1 pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike Schedule, Autumn 2026 Dundee UCU is taking discontinuous industrial action in September and October 2026. September 2026: Monday 21, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Friday 25, Monday 28, Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30 October 2026: Thursday 1, Friday 2, Monday 5, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 7, Thursday 8, Friday 9, Monday 12, Tuesday 13, Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"parent":949,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"has_hero_section":"disabled","styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1515\/revisions\/1577"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/ducu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}