Complex sentence: University staff went on strike in response to a real-terms pay cut of 13% since 2008, starting at midnight with the mass walk-out of security guards from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Split into simpler sentences: University staff went on strike in response to a real-terms pay cut of 13% since 2008,. The strike started at midnight with the mass walk-out of security guards from the Glasgow Caledonian University.