Union vote to reveal split over teachers' pay deal [Independent.ie]
- Published: 15 June 2010
PRIMARY teachers are certain to lift their work-to-rule directives this week, but uncertainty reigns when it comes to second-level unions.
A decision to lift union directives at primary level means that parent-teacher and staff meetings can be held outside school hours again from next September. But it will be some time before the position is known for second-level schools.
The biggest concern among school managers is in the post-primary sector, where unions are not co-operating with the re-shuffling of duties associated with hundreds of vacant middle management posts.
The split in the teacher unions will surface today when the INTO, representing primary teachers, will back the pay agreement at a meeting of the Public Services Committee of the ICTU.
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