UNIVERSITYÂ LECTURERS HAVE said that they continue to oppose the Croke Park deal, following reports that the Department of Education plans to impose pay cuts on more than 2,000 members if they do not back the agreement.
However, the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) said yesterday that it had not received any such ultimatum to date. The Irish Times quotes the IFUT general secretary Mike Jennings as saying:
“IFUT has received no phone call, text, fax, e-mail or any other communication from the department or any university to indicate dissatisfaction with our engagement in the negotiating process. Rather it has been IFUT that has expressed unease at the slow bicycle-race nature of the process and it would appear that other vested interests have adopted an approach of ‘getting their retaliation in first.”
The department has indicated that lecturers could not continue to benefit from the deal if they did not endorse it.
Read more in Seán Flynn’s Irish Times report >








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