UNIVERSITY strikes have left lecturers and librarians “rejuvenated” and empowered to fight neoliberal reforms, the Scottish TUC Congress heard today.

UCU Scotland official Mary Senior told delegates that the attack on lecturers’ and other workers’ pensions was a “catalyst for so many other grievances to come to the fore,” including the precariousness of work steadily creeping into the sector.

“Lecturers and librarians, professors and administrators have returned to work rejuvenated and refreshed in the knowledge that their employers can no longer take an axe to their pensions and slash their terms and conditions,” she said.