Irish postgraduate student unions to merge

Postgraduate Workers Organisation aims to tackle cost of living crisis and demand better employment conditions

Ireland’s two PhD student unions are to merge in a bid to ensure doctoral students are taken into account in any support action designed to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

The Postgraduate Workers Organisation will seek to ensure “a decent standard of living” for its members, according to a statement by the PhDs’ Collective Action Union. The new union merges two groups that advocate for PhD students, the PCAU and the Postgraduate Workers Alliance.