'We deserve pay rise' - €146,000 civil servants [Herald.ie]
- Published: 07 April 2010
Top civil servants earning up to €146,000 a year told Finance Minister Brian Lenihan their work was so important that they deserved a pay rise, it emerged today
The group of 600 was given an exemption from the full brunt of the public-service pay cuts when their association told Mr Lenihan that their pay was "way behind" what was on offer in the private sector.
The revelations are set to infuriate teachers, who are poised to reject their controversial pay-cuts deal. It will also spark further fury among gardai, nurses and low-paid public service workers who are being asked to accept a deal cementing their full pay cuts.
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ASTI unanimously rejects public sector pay deal [eecho.ie]
- Published: 07 April 2010
Delegates from the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland have unanimously agreed to recommend a rejection of the public service agreement in a ballot of its members.
Angry teachers spoke for over around two hours about their concerns that the deal on pay and reform in the public sector represented the ''yellow packing of education''.
Full Story: www.eecho.ie
Delegates support call to reject pay pact [IrishTimes]
- Published: 07 April 2010
PUBLIC SECTOR DEAL: THE PUBLIC service agreement asks too much of teachers and offers nothing in return, delegates were told during heated exchanges at the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) annual convention in Galway yesterday.
Delegates voted unanimously in favour of the motion which calls on the union’s central executive committee to recommend the rejection of the agreement in a ballot of members.
The motion was proposed by the union standing committee which has already expressed its “total and vehement opposition” to the agreement.
Full Story: www.irishtimes.com
Teacher unions urged to unite on pay deal [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 07 April 2010
As members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) prepared to vote on the controversial pay agreement, general secretary John White warned unions faced difficult choices amid divisive right-wing tactics.
Splits on the reform deal have already surfaced within the teaching unions with the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) to encourage its members to agree to the package, while the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) is to call for its rank-and-file to reject it.
Full Story: www.irishexaminer.com
Chalk and talk... Walsh throws fuel on to a raging fire [Independent.ie]
- Published: 07 April 2010
Former University of Limerick President Dr Ed Walsh is never short of a quotable quote. He went on two radio stations yesterday to denounce the "selfish and unpatriotic" teachers who were threatening industrial action over pay and came up with a novel idea. "Why not let them go on strike for a year and we would save €4bn in wages," he suggested.
Mary gets offer she cannot refuse
Incoming INTO general secretary Sheila Nunan offered newcomer Minister Mary Coughlan a 'deal' yesterday: "If you don't believe half the things you've heard about teachers, we won't believe half the things we've heard about you." She was joking, wasn't she?
She also declared that being average at maths was not good enough, which brings to mind the former US president who expressed outrage when he was told that half the nation's students were below average in maths -- he declared that everybody should be above average in maths.
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