UCD staff to strike over treatment of contract workers
30/08/2006 - 12:39:36Staff at University College Dublin are planning strike action next Monday as part of a dispute regarding the treatment of contract workers.
SIPTU claims the university is denying job security and pension rights to employees on fixed contracts, who make up one-third of its staff.
It says UCD is abusing the law covering fixed-term contract work in lecturing and research.
Twenty cases have already gone before a Rights Commissioner as part of the dispute.
