Siptu Conference: University slated for lack of action on ‘discrimination’

Siptu has condemned a lack of action by management at NUI Galway to address what it describes as problems related to discrimination and precarious working conditions at the university.

Delegates at the union’s biennial conference in Cork unanimously backed an emergency motion supporting a local branch campaign against discrimination and calling on management at the university to attend conciliation talks with unions at the Workplace Relations Commission.

In recent years, the university was embroiled in controversy over gender equality among academic staff after the Equality Tribunal found in favour of lecturer Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington.