Teachers likely to mark pay package 'not satisfactory' [Independent.ie]
- Published: 10 April 2010
IT was the shortest honeymoon period any Education Minister has ever had. Barely a wet week in the job Mary Coughlan was quickly immersed into the choppy waters of teachers' conferences.
It was not their finest week from the point of view of a weary public, which saw the protests at two of the conferences as a discourtesy to their guest. The third did not even invite her.
The same public was also confused by the split over the pay deal in the unions. For a time it looked as if the Teachers' Union of Ireland, which represents teachers in vocational schools, community colleges and Institutes of Technology, was isolated. Until then, it was the only union executive, along with the CPSU -- pilloried by the public for the passport chaos -- that recommended a rejection of the deal.
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