Staff dispute may see €1m added to UCC’s pay bill

Despite recommendations that more than two-thirds of staff receive average increases of €9,000 a year each at the Tyndall National Institute, unions will outline concerns about the job comparison exercise to a meeting at the Labour Relations Commission tomorrow.
The report by independent consultants was commissioned to help resolve the long-running dispute at Tyndall, where staff had forced the research centre to close in a one-day strike a year ago over disagreement ab- out how the outcome of the review would be implemented.