'It's just not professional. I have a job. I'm lucky to have a job' [IrishTimes]
- Published: 10 April 2010
Teachers’ unions made headlines this week responding to cuts. What are the views of workaday teachers?
PICTURES OF a shaken Mary Coughlan fleeing the Inismór Suite of the West County Hotel in Ennis gave the impression of a teacher union movement on the rampage this week. Pay cuts, staff cuts and haircuts had bloodied the water, and the delegates went in for the kill.
Truth be told, some union members were angry in the good times, too. For some in the union movement, anger is a policy. Unions attract the most passionate advocates for workers’ rights and within those ranks there are always extreme elements.
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