# asti - Wednesday 10 August, 2022
# Co-ordinated Campaign
# Co-ordinated Campaign
The unions noted that workers’ pay has been diminished by soaring inflation.
# asti - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# TEACHERS UNION
# TEACHERS UNION
The two main teachers’ unions will be holding in-person conferences for the first time in two years today.
# asti - Friday 25 March, 2022
# Schools
Staff absence in schools is reportedly "very high" due to the current wave of the virus. The Department of Education said its helpline remains open to support schools. It said measures taken to support the supply of substitute teachers also remain in place.
# asti - Monday 10 January, 2022
# State Exams
# State Exams
Students had a choice last year whether to sit an exam or receive an accredited grade.
# asti - Wednesday 5 January, 2022
# Re-opening
# Re-opening
Education Minister Norma Foley said that the next few weeks would be challenging.
# asti - Tuesday 4 January, 2022
# Back To School
The Department of Education said there was no public health rationale to delay the reopening. The ASTI has said that some classes may be prioritised if adequate teaching staff was not available. The leaders of the three government coalition parties also met this afternoon and green lit the plans for schools.
# asti - Monday 3 January, 2022
# Schools
# Schools
The teachers union will ask the Department of Health to introduce ‘a delayed and staggered reopening’ of schools at a meeting tomorrow.
# asti - Monday 29 November, 2021
# Substitute Teachers
# Substitute Teachers
Emergency measures include an increased involvement of student teachers and retired teachers.
# asti - Friday 13 August, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Pregnant people cannot register for a Covid-19 vaccine prior to 14 weeks’ gestation.
# asti - Wednesday 7 April, 2021
# Teachers
# Teachers
The conferences of the country’s three teacher trade unions are continuing today.
# asti - Tuesday 6 April, 2021
# Vaccine Rollout
The conferences of the country's three teacher trade unions started online today Unions are unhappy about the revised vaccination rollout based on age and not profession Education Minister Norma Foley has addressed delegates at the INTO Congress
# asti - Friday 2 April, 2021
# Teachers
# Teachers
The decision to overhaul the vaccine plan has sparked anger from teachers who expected to be vaccinated sooner.
# asti - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
Talks have been ongoing for weeks between the government and unions.
# asti - Monday 15 February, 2021
# 2021
# 2021
The ASTI has said the minister has agreed to work on the union’s concerns.
# asti - Saturday 13 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
The ASTI said that its concerns had been addressed by Minister for Education Norma Foley.
# asti - Friday 12 February, 2021
# Leaving Cert
ASTI to attend fresh talks with Education Minister this afternoon Harris says there is more time this year to find solution 'Significant increase' in on-site attendance possible at third-level from September
# State Exams
# State Exams
It’s been a chaotic 24 hours.
# asti - Thursday 11 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
The union has said that the plans from the department would not provide a “meaningful Leaving Certificate” for students.
# asti - Sunday 24 January, 2021
# Spread
# Spread
A teachers’ union wants safety measures in schools to be reviewed in the context of the new, more transmissible strains.
# asti - Saturday 9 January, 2021
The union has said that the proposal involves a “continuation of unequal pay for thousands of second-level teachers”.
# asti - Friday 30 October, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
ASTI members have voted to take industrial action over ‘key coronavirus issues’ in Irish schools.
# asti - Thursday 29 October, 2020
# ASTI
# ASTI
The ASTI voted to authorise strike action if a number of issues are not addressed.
# asti - Wednesday 28 October, 2020
# Teaching Union
# Teaching Union
The union president said teachers are “demanding that the government step up” and provide solutions.
# asti - Monday 5 October, 2020
# Teachers
# Teachers
Under Level 5 restrictions, schools would remain open but most other businesses would be closed
# asti - Saturday 19 September, 2020
# ASTI
# ASTI
It said ASTI members had “serious concerns” about the health and safety of school communities.
# asti - Thursday 2 July, 2020
# New Guidelines
# New Guidelines
Teachers’ unions will appear before the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee today.
# asti - Friday 22 May, 2020
# Indemnity
# Indemnity
Education Minister Joe McHugh has welcomed the development.
# Calculated Grades
# Calculated Grades
The ASTI has said that teachers need to be fully protected if there is a legal challenge to calculated grades.
# asti - Sunday 10 May, 2020
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
The main teachers’ union said it still has “a number of major concerns” with the new Leaving Cert plan.
# asti - Wednesday 22 January, 2020
# Pay Dispute
# Pay Dispute
TUI members are set to strike on 4 February over pay inequality.
# asti - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
# Teaching
# Teaching
In other countries excessive bureaucracy has led to the demoralisation of teachers, writes ASTI President Breda Lynch.
# asti - Thursday 29 November, 2018
# Teachers Pay
# Teachers Pay
The ASTI ’s executive will meet shortly to consider the outcome of the ballot.
# asti - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
# Equal Pay For Equal Work
# Equal Pay For Equal Work
The union will meet next Wednesday to agree on a ballot for industrial action, up to and including a strike.
# asti - Tuesday 3 April, 2018
# New Teachers
# New Teachers
Unions have voted in favour of industrial action if pay inequality is not addressed.
# Sex Education
# Sex Education
Richard Bruton is due to address the annual conference of the ASTI teachers’ union this morning.
# asti - Thursday 14 September, 2017
# Education
# Education
A ballot of members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) rejected the government’s new public pay deal this evening.
# asti - Thursday 1 June, 2017
# 11th Hour
# 11th Hour
The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
# asti - Thursday 2 February, 2017
# ASTI
# ASTI
Industrial action led to the closure of over 500 schools in November.
# asti - Tuesday 29 November, 2016
# Midnight Oil
# Midnight Oil
It’s three weeks since the current talks process began.
# asti - Saturday 12 November, 2016
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
The next few months look bleak for industrial relations in the public sector, writes Dr Michelle O’Sullivan.
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