PCAU and PGWA to Merge Into One Organisation

Ailbhe Noonan Editor

The PhDs’ Collective Action Union (PCAU) and the Postgraduate Workers Alliance Ireland (PGWA) have announced that the two unions will act as one body known as the Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation upon completion of a merger between the two organisations.

The two groups have passed a memorandum of understanding that will align their goals in purpose, direction and approach until the merger is complete.

PCAU and PGWA have also begun a joint membership drive calling all postgraduate researchers to join the groups. The nationwide membership drive comes after the PCAU and PGWA published their joint Fair Postgraduate Researcher Agreement (FRA) in December, which outlined the groups’ demands for postgraduate researchers including a liveable stipend, worker status under the law and an improvement in conditions and visa requirements for non-EU researchers.

The two groups have also called on postgraduate researchers to submit their experiences to the ongoing