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GMIT lecturers in complaint about their workloads

Lecturers at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) have voiced concerns about increased workload and lack of consultation on new policies pushed through by management.

At a packed emergency meeting of the GMIT branch of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, workers also reiterated their resistance to plans to outsource lecturing work.

Four motions were passed at the March meeting, which was the “best attended branch meeting in some time”, according to the Branch Secretary.

One motion passed by the branch was to express “grave concern regarding the proposed outsourcing of any module”. The branch has sought advice from the TUI head office with regard to this matter.

The branch also passed a motion advising members “not to attend meetings if doing so means foregoing a lunch break”.

Branch Secretary Nigel Moran, in an email to members – seen by the Galway City Tribune – said: “Members are not obliged to attend any meeting that would cut across their normal lunch break, depending on their timetable and are entitled to refuse to do so.

“Should any member find themselves being put under undue pressure to attend a meeting during the hour they need to take their lunch, then he or she should inform their school representative without delay.”

Mr Moran said that the advice not to attend work meetings during lunch breaks was taken in the context of a “heavy workload” and trying to “manage work related stress levels” of the staff at GMIT.

For more on this story, see this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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