By Joseph Loughnane (FEE Galway) Education should be about teaching people how to think, not what to think. Third level education today however has become no more than state subsidised training. Universities are now just a huge assembly line churning out regimented workers for the benefit of corporations, banks and big business. Terms such as…
At universities across Ireland (such as NUIM, UCD and NUIG) students took time today to offer solidarity to education workers in a real,practical way- by joining them on picket lines. The failure of the NUI Maynooth Student Union to support the one day strike did not deter a group of over 60 students from joining…
STRIKE ACTION BY CAMPUS TRADE UNIONISTS, 24 NOVEMBER 2009 All of the trade unions representing staff working on the Maynooth campus are taking part in a one-day strike on Tuesday November 24th. The strike is protesting against the threat of further government-imposed cuts in the pay of university employees. Action is being taken following ballots…
On November 6th, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is staging a series of nationwide demonstrations. Many students return home on Thursday night and Friday morning, with Friday traditionally the quiestest day on campus. We would urge students, and their families, to attend one of the demonstrations on November sixth.
Siptu members in UCD have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over the issue of employment contracts and the right to a pension. Siptu has made a call for support of the strike and picket being undertaken by its members in UCD on Monday the eleventh of September. Siptu explains that more than one third of…
