COLLEGE workers staged strike action at the heart of the First Minister’s constituency today to demand an end to further-education cuts.

Dozens of lecturers took to the picket line at the Cardonald campus in Humza Yousaf’s Glasgow Pollok constituency, in the latest in a series of EIS-Fela strikes targeting constituencies of Scottish government ministers ahead of further rolling action next month.

Despite the disruption to teaching, strikers continue to enjoy support from students in their struggle not only to win better pay but to reverse the £32.7 million in SNP-Green Scottish government cuts under way this year.

A Student Action spokesperson told the Morning Star: “The same students who suffered last year are suffering again due to what can only be described as negligence on the part of employers.

“Our government’s failure to intervene sends a clear message to working-class students: you don’t matter enough to fix this.

“This is why we will always stand in solidarity with both lecturing and support staff in their fight for fair pay — because they’re the only ones standing up for students.”

Fresh from delivering a “report card” to Mr Yousaf’s constituency office in Govan, EIS-Fela Glasgow Clyde College branch secretary Paula Dixon told the Star: “We’ve been fighting for a deal since 2021, and every time we ask for a decent increase, they tell us more jobs must go to pay for it.

“When the Scottish government talk about retraining and rebuilding the economy, they say further education is where it’s at, but all we see are even more cuts.

“Community provision has been cut, courses have been cut, jobs have been cut.

“We’re not just fighting for pay, we’re fighting for a future.”

The Scottish government and bosses’organisation College Employers Scotland were contacted for comment.