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Saturday 2 July 2022
The union has said that the proposal involves a “continuation of unequal pay for thousands of second-level teachers”.
The ASTI’s executive will meet shortly to consider the outcome of the ballot.
Members of the union will now be balloted on industrial action.
President of the Teacher’s Union of Ireland Seamus Lahart says students, schools and teachers will suffer if action is not taken to address the recruitment and retention crisis.
A ballot of members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) rejected the government’s new public pay deal this evening.
In ten years’ time our poor academic results in schools will be met with public outcry, writes Cionnaith Ó Duibhir.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland carried out a survey that indicates teachers’ morale at work is low because of the public pay dispute.
Some students in exam years have expressed an interest in studying in school during these days but this is not likely to be feasible due to the lack of supervision and insurance requirements.
Do lower public service salaries extend to the Dáil chamber? FactCheck finds out.
Protest outside Leinster House as teachers are “very unhappy”.
Pat King has said the planned action will affect students only “marginally”. Teachers will withdraw from out-of-hours duties including parent and staff meetings from tomorrow week.
Cuts to teachers’ salaries and increased taxation have left some of my colleagues just making ends meet, writes Carmel Hume.
THIS SUMMER IT emerged that a beach resort in Spain has banned people from peeing in the sea and that those found to have done the deed now face a €750 fine.
The council for the town of Vigo in Galicia passed legislation this month which would see people fined for ”physiological evacuations in the sea or on the beach”.
The council has not said how it plans on enforcing the new by-laws.
This morning, we want to know: Do you think it’s okay to pee in the sea?
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The Sinn Féin deputy says now is the time for emergency measures to tackle rising inflation.
Minister of State Peter Burke says he’s hoping to make real change for women in public life.
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