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Support the Strikes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Donate to Dundee UCU Strike Fighting Fund: email DUCU@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Message from Dundee UCU members to University of Dundee students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The schedule of activities organised during strike action <\/a> include teachouts for members and students, workshops for members, online pickets, branch meetings, and picket line activities. The picket will take place every day from 8-11.30 outside the Tower building on Perth Road. 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

Join us at the public rally on 23 September to support our demand for no compulsory redundancies! The rally will be held at 12 pm in the Central Library at the Wellgate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petitions to save various parts of the university from cuts as well as campaign and poster materials available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also support our Crowdfunding campaign to fund a Judicial Review<\/a> to challenge the decision of the University Court to approve compulsory redundancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

14 September 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the five-week strikes by Dundee UCU members, we would like to highlight the unconsionable and devastating effects on staff<\/strong> of the last two years of mismanagement, governance failures, and lack of transparency and accountability at the University of Dundee. Our staff well-being survey report published in August 2026<\/a> and conducted over seven months shows that staff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“consistently described excessive workload, inadequate staffing, prolonged uncertainty and limited opportunities for recovery. Many comments reflected exhaustion and frustration, but a number also described serious deterioration in physical and mental health, including burnout, prolonged sickness absence and suicidal thoughts. These accounts illustrate that, for some staff, the impact of current working conditions extends far beyond ordinary occupational stress and is being experienced as a significant threat to health and wellbeing.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 September 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dundee UCU has reviewed the performance of the Scottish Funding Council against its two important governance documents: The Financial Memorandum with Higher Education Institutions, and the Scottish Code of Good HE Governance. We have found multiple significant failures<\/a> on the part of the SFC in adhering to its own codes of practice and governance. These are particularly noticeable as they repeat the failures identified of the SFC in the Gillies Report of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, we ask the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament, to whom the SFC is legally accountable, to address the governance failures that continue at the University of Dundee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The failures of the SFC we have highlighted include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n