Union rift over pay widens as teachers jeer Coughlan [Independent.ie]
- Published: 07 April 2010
THE split between teachers over the controversial pay deal widened yesterday.
INTO leaders are now confident their members will swing in behind the package after a narrow vote in Galway.
But the Teachers' Union of Ireland congress yesterday unanimously rejected the deal. Delegates also turned their ire on the "arrogant" leadership of ICTU for recommending what TUI president Don Ryan described as a "massive con job".
Meanwhile the other post primary union, the ASTI, will today pass an emergency motion expressing "total and vehement opposition" to the agreement.
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