格拉斯哥卡尔德尼安大学的工作人员正在举行罢工行动。为反对计划中的裁员，校内三个工会首次联合罢工。
Staff at Glasgow Caledonian University are staging strike action, with all three campus unions walking out together for the first time over planned job cuts.
讲师和支持人员表示，UCU、EIS和Unison成员于周四采取的罢工行动，实际上可能使大学无法正常运转。
Lecturers and support staff say the action by members of the UCU, the EIS and Unison on Thursday could effectively stop the university from operating.
校方管理层计划裁减约50个岗位，并表示尚未排除强制裁员的可能。
Management at the university plan to cut about 50 posts and say they have not ruled out compulsory redundancies.
校方称，裁减岗位是为了确保卡利的财务稳定，并将此归因于两年来收入减少3300万英镑，部分原因是国际学生人数下降。
They say the cuts are needed to secure Caley's finances and blame a £33m fall in income over two years, partly due to a drop in the number of international students.
这场争端可追溯至3月。当时，管理层宣布计划裁减最多100个岗位，称国际学生带来的收入大幅下降。
The dispute dates back to March when management announced plans to cut up to 100 posts, blaming a sharp fall in income from international students.
此后，通过自愿裁员，裁减岗位的数量已降至约50个，但强制裁员仍是症结所在。
Since then, voluntary redundancies have brought that figure down to about 50 but the sticking point is compulsory redundancies.
工会希望校方保证不会有人被迫离职，但管理层拒绝作出这一承诺。
The unions want a guarantee that nobody will be forced to leave - but the management has refused to rule it out.
本月早些时候，调解机构Acas的谈判破裂，讲师们于上周举行了罢工。工会认为，裁减岗位是一种选择，而非迫不得已的措施。
Talks at the conciliation service Acas broke down earlier this month and lecturers went on strike last week. The unions argue the cuts are a choice rather than a necessity.
他们指出，校方据称拥有9500万英镑的现金储备，还花费约450万英镑购买了市中心土地，并认为此时这样做很不明智。校方表示，购入和出售土地是学校长期战略的一部分。
They point to what they say are £95m in cash reserves as well as the university's purchase of land in the city centre for about £4.5m, which they say is foolish at this time. The university says buying and selling land is part of a long-standing strategy.
校方此前强调，下一财年将面临1000万英镑的财务赤字，并表示裁减岗位是让其重获“稳健财务基础”的必要措施。一名大学发言人补充说，对工会投票决定罢工感到“失望”。
It has previously highlighted that it is facing a £10m financial deficit in the next financial year and said the cuts are needed to put it back on a "sound financial footing". A university spokesperson added they were "disappointed" the unions had voted to strike.
他们表示，工会为替代强制裁员而提出的措施实际上大多已经实施，这正是裁减岗位数量减少的原因。
They said the measures the unions had suggested as alternatives to compulsory redundancies had largely already been taken and that was why the number of job cuts had been reduced.
“尽管自愿措施仍是我们的首选做法，但如果无法实现所需的成本节省，就不能排除强制裁员。”他们说。
"While voluntary measures remain our preferred approach, we cannot rule out compulsory redundancies if the required savings are not achieved," they said.
Unison工会分会书记达维娜·兰金表示，强制裁员并非解决办法。
Unison branch secretary Davena Rankin said compulsory redundancies were not the answer.
“员工希望支持学生、帮助大学取得成功，但他们需要确信自己的岗位有保障。”兰金说。
"Staff want to support students and help the university succeed, but they need confidence that their jobs are secure," Rankin said.
UCU工会分会主席卡伦·洛里默表示，员工希望欢迎新生和返校生，但拒不排除强制裁员，使员工别无选择，只能罢工。
UCU branch president Karen Lorimer said staff wanted to be welcoming new and returning students but the refusal to rule out using compulsory redundancies left them with no alternative but to strike.
EIS工会分会秘书、法学讲师尼克·麦克雷尔表示，高等教育界普遍存在一些问题，但格拉斯哥凯利登尼亚大学财务状况良好，没有必要强制裁员。这是该大学持续至今的纠纷中规模最大的一天罢工。三个工会同一天举行罢工尚属首次。工会表示，两个讲师工会同一天在同一所大学举行罢工极不寻常。
Nick McKerrell, a law lecturer and the branch secretary of the EIS, said there were issues across higher education but Caley was in a strong place financially and there was no need for compulsory redundancies. This is the biggest day so far of what is an ongoing dispute at the university. For the first time, all three unions are on strike on the same day. The unions said it was highly unusual for both the lecturers' unions to be on strike at the same university on the same day.
他们表示，如果再加上负责信息技术、安保、餐饮、保洁、图书馆和学生福利等工作的支持人员，校园和大学实际上将陷入全面停摆。
They said that adding the support staff - who run IT, security, catering and cleaning as well as the library and student welfare - would bring the campus and the university to an effective standstill.
大学一直表示，希望尽量减少对学生造成的影响，但鉴于如此多服务受到影响，这 将非常困难。后续还计划举行罢工，时间将持续至10月中旬。
The university has said throughout that it wants to keep disruption for students to a minimum but with so many services affected, that will be very difficult. Further strike dates are planned stretching to the middle of October.
讲师工会下周将再次罢工，预计Unison工会会让成员分批采取行动。格拉斯哥凯利登尼亚大学远非孤例。
The lecturers' unions are out again next week, and Unison is expected to stagger action among its members. Glasgow Caledonian is far from an isolated case.
在爱丁堡大学，约3000名员工已就超过1.4亿英镑的削减方案展开为期五周的罢工，罢工将持续至10月30日。
At the University of Edinburgh, about 3,000 staff have begun five weeks of strikes running until 30 October, over £140m of cuts.
邓迪大学员工也在进行为期五周的罢工。这是动荡而艰难的一年中的最新篇章。
Dundee University staff are also staging a five-week walkout It's the latest chapter in a bruising year.
早在3月，邓迪、阿伯丁、斯特拉斯克莱德和赫瑞瓦特的员工就曾因不同纠纷分别举行罢工。根本问题在于资金和经费。
Back in March, staff in Dundee, Aberdeen Strathclyde Heriot-Watt all walked out in separate disputes. The underlying problem is money and funding.
苏格兰高校每招收一名苏格兰学生，都会从政府获得固定拨款，而且不得向这些学生收取学费。多年来，它们一直通过国际学生的学费来弥补这一缺口。
Scottish universities get a fixed amount from the government for each Scottish student they teach, and they're not allowed to charge them fees. For years they've made up the gap with fees from international students.
但我们已经看到，海外学生人数在减少，而员工、养老金和能源成本却持续上升。
But we've seen the number of overseas students falling, while the cost of staff, pensions and energy keep rising.
就在几周前，一个为苏格兰政府大学经费审查工作的专家组估计，该行业每年面临约2亿英镑的资金缺口。研究还发现，维修积压问题涉及约10亿英镑。
Just a few weeks ago, an expert group working for the Scottish government's review of university funding estimated that the sector is short of around £200m a year It also found a repairs backlog of about £1bn.