CIT staff to protest over student counsellor advert

Staff at Cork Institute of Technology are to protest today ahead of potential strike action over what they say is management’s failure to adhere to industrial relations procedures.

It follows complaints that CIT is advertising for student counsellor with qualifications below an agreed standard.

The protest, which will be held on CIT campus this lunchtime, has been organised by members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland branch at the institute, and has been prompted by an advertisement issued by management for a position in the college’s student counselling service.