UCC students seek assurances amid Tyndall staff strike threat

Students at University College Cork want assurances that library and other services will not be hit by a strike during exams next week.

The call came as management applied to the High Court for an injunction to prevent staff of the Tyndall National Institute, a leading UCC research centre, picketing the main campus on Wednesday, May 13. The application comes back before the court later this week to give Siptu and the Irish Federation of University Teachers (Ifut) a chance to respond to the proceedings.

The unions are in a long-running industrial dispute, seeking parity of pay between members at Tyndall and counterparts in UCC. They closed the research institute last Friday and will do so today and tomorrow, with plans to place pickets on six entrances to the main UCC campus during a fourth strike day next Wednesday if the row is not resolved.