Created on: 12 Jan 2026
Lecturers at Edinburgh Napier University have overwhelmingly voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over planned job cuts at the university. The ballot was arranged by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS).
93% of those voting in the ballot backed the move to strike action in opposition to the planned job cuts, with 7% voting against. The result also exceeds current legal threshold for strike action, and provides the EIS University Lecturers’ Association (EIS-ULA) with a clear mandate to commence strike action at Edinburgh Napier.
Commenting, EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley said, “Our members at Edinburgh Napier University have clearly demonstrated their willingness to take strike action to fight the proposed job cuts at the university. The EIS will always fight the threat of compulsory redundancies, and our members are determined to take a stand against a damaging programme of cuts which would be bad for students and staff alike.”
The EIS-ULA Executive will now consider the next steps to be taken in the dispute, and will issue further information in due course.
The move towards strikes at Edinburgh Napier follows on from a continuing dispute over planned redundancies at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, where EIS members have already been engaging in a programme of strike action.
These disputes highlight continuing concern over the funding of the Higher Education sector in Scotland, and the growing threat to jobs and courses in Scotland’s universities.