The Labour Court process followed a vote for industrial action by a group of TUI members at Munster Technological University and a failure by the parties to resolve the dispute at the Workplace Relations Commission. The Labour Court has rejected a bid by the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) to have the pay of some senior staff at the new technological universities linked to their Dublin-based counterparts. The Labour Court process followed a vote for industrial action by a group of TUI members at Munster Technological University (MTU) and a failure by the parties to resolve the dispute at the Workplace Relations Commission. He did this, it went on, by setting “out his approval for the filling of senior management posts in four of the technological universities at a rate lower than similar posts in Technological University Dublin”. The TUI disagreed and asked the Labour Court to refer the issue to the body established by the Government to review higher remuneration.

Source: The Irish Times January 03, 2026 00:00 UTC