The lecturers of the BIMM music college have been forced onto the picket lines. They face an incredible assault on their rights, with 53 workers facing redundancy. A small number of them will be re-employed on less than half the hourly wage they were on previously and the rest will be faced with the choice of getting bogus self-employment on zero-hour contracts. This is part of the so-called "Uberisation" of academic conditions. The State cannot wash its hands of what is happening here. Approximately 80% of the students are in BIMM, and paid for by the State, through TU Dublin, which has, effectively, outsourced to BIMM. Will the Taoiseach say that BIMM should engage with the workers at the WRC, which it has failed to do up until now? Will he also say that the State cannot have contracts with a company that proceeds to treat workers so shoddily and-----

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-----TU Dublin should tell BIMM to back off or else it will not be able to continue with this arrangement?

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It is mostly funded by the State.

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