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University lecturers urged to endorse Croke Park deal

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UNIVERSITY 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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  • Diarmaid Twomey 07/03/11 #
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    This is a joke, I know a senior lecturer in one of the countries top colleges and there is 2.5 admin staff to every frontline lecturer in his college alone. You have presidents, multiple vice presidents, the HEA, admin staff for every department etc etc etc. Is third level education not about, well, education? And not parading around fellas with their statuses of VP? Until they sort out the huge bureaucracy in every facet of the public service they SHOULD NOT be asking more frontliners to take a hit. It’s a disgrace! And who is at the heart of this injustice again? The UNIONS! Cause Mr.VP number 28 pays his dues! It’s a shambles!

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    • Sean Armstrong 07/03/11 #
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      Can I ask if you voted Labour? Because this is exactly the message Labour will send during it’s tenure in government. Over the next four years, unions will be placed top of the list of priorities. It’s ironic really that a party who have been reluctant to blame unions for anything have been handed the brief for public sector reform… How will they do it? Fire all non-union workers? Answers on the back of a postcard please!

  • Diarmaid Twomey 07/03/11 #
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    No I am the complete opposite voter to Labour. They are so deep in Union corruption it’s not even worth talking about. I only commented on that yesterday to a friend. How in the name of God are a party backed by SIPTU going to now go in and try to reform SIPTUS members. It’s not going to work. What annoys me is why FG didn’t just grab the nettle and take that portfolio cause we all know what Labour will do, Yes, Mr.O Connor, No, Mr O Connor, 3 bags full Mr.O Connor. The whole public service needs to be radically reformed and with idiots like Begg, O Connor etc preaching to their brainwashees, it aint going to happen. Forget the fact that there’s people lying on trolleys or overcrowded rat infested classrooms or that someone starting a business can’t catch a break or ex sole traders can’t claim social welfare, no all the guys playing solitaire in the 2000 strong “HR” department of the HSE MUST be protected. God knows Siptu wouldn’t be able to make plans for Liberty Hall if they were down those subscriptions!

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