Striking university workers could bring chaos to freshers' week at two city universities.
Cleaners, library assistants and security guards are among members of trade union Unison set to walk out at Glasgow University and Glasgow Caledonian .
They'll join members at a further two Scottish institutions - Napier in Edinburgh and Robert Gordon in Aberdeen - in five days of strike action in a dispute over pay.
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Davena Rankin is branch secretary at Glasgow Caledonian and explained why members voted to take action.
She said: “Strike action is never easy, least of all for low-paid university workers like cleaners, security officers and library assistants. With the sector’s UK pay negotiating machinery imposing yet another disputed below-inflation award, Unison members have been left with no choice but to fight back.
"We are proud of the strong mandates received at these four institutions, and the onus is on these employers and the sector to show they’ll act to protect hard-working staff from this cost of living crisis."
The first walk out will take place on September 19, 20 and 21, followed by a further two days on October 3 and 4. The action is expected to seriously disrupt freshers week and the first weeks of teaching.
Member at other institutions are set to ballot over the same dispute and may join the action at a later date.
Lorcan Mullen, Union Scotland's head of higher and further education, said: “The pay inequalities in this largely publicly-funded sector are obscene, and that hurts low-paid staff all the more with living costs running so high.
"UCEA, the Scottish Government, individual universities and sector leaders have a moral responsibility to act with urgency and seriousness on the cost-of-living crisis in Scotland’s universities."
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