Union advances preparations for industrial-action ballot following expiry of Public Service AgreementIFUT has written formally to university presidents and senior HR leaders across higher education, advising them that preparations are under way to ballot members for indu

Positive meeting also addresses precarious employment, staffing restrictions and the public-service pay ballotIFUT General Secretary Frank Jones, President Michael Hinds and Assistant General Secretary Robert McNamara met Minister for Further and Higher Education, Resear

The Irish Federation of University Teachers has announced that it will ballot members for industrial action, up to and including strike action, following the Government’s failure to establish a credible basis for negotiations on a new public service pay agreement.