Good to chat with Gary Gannon TD today, Higher Edu and Research spokesperson for Social Democrats - we discussed PhDs as workers, livable incomes, access & issues faced by non-EU researchers.

All major opposition parties are behind us in supporting #PhDRights - let's make it happen!

Since this is gaining some traction, please check out the postgraduate worker's alliance at pgwai.com and here on Twitter
@pgwa_ie @uccpgwa @pgwanuig
@PhDRights UCD Post-Graduate Workers Alliance

The Alliance is campaigning for recognition of the work done by PhD researchers

Calling all postgraduates in Ireland - disappointed in the #budget2023Ireland ? Join PGWA and make your voice heard! forms.gle/twfxgVFE2GThft…

Average PhD stipend: ~€16k

TD salary, before expenses or allowances: €102,204

TD salaries have increased several times since this govt took office. PhD stipends (for some) have been increased once in the last decade.

#PayUsEnoughToLive #PhDRights

We're ready to go for #CostOfLivingSept24 after our Poster Making session tonight.

Costs are rising, so are we. Join us on Saturday, meeting Trinity Front Square from 1pm

#PhDRights

Great turnout from PhDs at the Dáil today demanding livable incomes & equal pay for all

Let's build on this momentum by organising together on our campuses- get involved by contacting us @pgwa_ie

We're working with USI VP Postgraduate Affairs
& SIPTU to form a fighting PhD union, join us!

Today Union of Students in Ireland @pgwa_ie @PhdsPcau Students4Change and other student unions stand in solidarity with all PhD researchers across Ireland to demand a fair pay of 28,000 for All PhD researchers.

If you made it all the way to the end, thanks so much for reading. Please RT to highlight this massive issue for non-EU immigrants in Ireland! Department of Justice 🇮🇪 Helen McEntee TD Immigrant Council.ie The Irish Times TheJournal.ie @pgwa_ie UCD Students' Union UCD Post-Graduate Workers Alliance @PhDRights (20/20)

Excellent 👏 More of this needed across all campuses in Ireland!

Solidarity to the UCU at QUB ✊

belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-…

This week Niall Kennedy from the Irish Precarity Network spoke to the Oireachtas committee on the Future Funding of Higher Education - his contribution from 46mins makes for essential listening

77% of HEI Hourly paid staff live below the poverty line
oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-…

Today I resigned as External Examiner to History of Art University of Oxford BA progs. As stated to the VC of this WEALTHY institution I reject the ideological decision of Universities UK USS Employers to further devastate USS #pensions & intransigence re UCU #FourFights . Goodwill gone

Postgraduate Researchers - is your stipend enough to live on? Have you say here usi.ie/postgraduate-s… closes Sunday 6th March
#stipend #PhD #phdireland #postgraduate #student Union of Students in Ireland

🚨 The nine highest paid Vice Chancellors all run universities which are USS members.

Between them they take home £4.45 MILLION (!) every year.

While raking in millions, they are collectively refusing to give staff fair pensions and decent pay.

It's an absolute disgrace.

UCD Students' Union hold #ItsNotMeItsUCD protest, read the full coverage below:

universityobserver.ie/ucdsu-hold-its…

Grand day for it🔥

Very clear message to University College Dublin and Government. Increases in cost of studying at UCD are unsustainable. Core funding needs to increase and universities need to pull up their socks on investing in student supports and affordable accommodation.
#ItsNotMeItsUCD

President Ruairí Power opens our demo and welcomes staff and students. Outlines core demands for management to address #ItsNotMeItsUCD

A representative for UCD Post-Graduate Workers Alliance is outlining how the treatment of postgraduate workers impacts students #ItsNotMeItsUCD

University staff are striking today

We won’t let bosses destroy our pensions

#OneOfUsAllOfUs

ucu.org.uk/article/12100/…

Strikes on in the UK! Solidarity ✊