Welcome Week strike

General plan and schedule

Monday 8 September: Local pickets from 9 am until 11am, and a rally at George Square from noon until 1:30 pm.

Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 September: Local pickets from 9am until noon, with plans to leaflet at Welcome Week events in Bristo Square on Tuesday (Postgraduate Students Welcome) and Wednesday (Student Information Fair).

Friday 12 September: Two concentrated pickets, one at King’s Buildings, one at Old College, from 9am until noon. Teach-outs from 12:30 to 1:30pm. Social @ Summerhall from 4:40pm onwards.

Teach-out schedule

Central Campus, outside of Chrystal Macmillan Building (12:30 to 1:30pm)

• Tuesday 9 September: Precarity sucks!

• Wednesday 10 September: How the neoliberal university uses marking to pit students, academics and professional services against each other

• Thursday 11 September: Student and staff for a free Palestine: how to struggle on campus and beyond

• Friday 12 September: Get to know your Professional Services colleagues

King’s Buildings, outside of Nucleus Building (12:30 to 1:30pm)

• Tuesday 9 September: Get to know your Professional Services colleagues

• Wednesday 10 September: The anatomy of a biology demonstrator – are they paid fairly?

Picket locations

1. Old College

2. Reid School of Music (14 Bristo Square)

3. Alison House

4. Chrystal Macmillan Building

5. Informatics

6. Dugald Stewart (PPLS)

7. 50 George Square (LLC)

8. Main Library

9. Business School

10. Appleton Tower

11. 19 George Square (IMES)

12. ECA Hunter Buildings (Art/HoA/Design)

13. ECA Minto St (ESALA)

14. Old Medical School

15. Moray House (Holyrood Campus)

16. New College

17. EFI (meeting point for ARPS members)

18. King's Buildings

19. Bioquarter

20. Easter Bush