Fintan Sheridan tweetz:
Great support for Asti union this morning on the very busy Fonthill Rd [Dublin 22].
Elaine Feeney tweetz:
Happy striking in the rain for parity in pay for junior teachers #strike
Teresa Mannion tweetz:
Picket line at Colaiste Éinde, Salthill, Galway.
Aoife Kelly tweetz:
Parents supporting us with tea and sausage rolls [in Dublin].
John O’Connor tweetz:
Just met the teachers in Mayfield [Cork] who are on strike for equal pay.
Donegal Democrat tweetz:
11 schools closed in Donegal as teachers go on strike. Pictured are teachers from Colaiste Cholmcille, Ballyshannon.
Most secondary schools closed over ASTI strike (RTE)
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seems very low turnout of teachers, sales must be on up the north god bless em #jumpintheque
They take it in shifts
Never understood that. If you’re on strike would you not be there for the full working day?
Thing is they can’t enter the grounds of the school and it’s a hell of a long time to be standing on a road
Sympathy of zero
100% Support.
Yup.
Agree with equal pay for junior teachers but the senior ones are way over paid so let them meet somewhere in the middle.
The figures might initially suggest senior teachers are over paid but those figures include principals and vice-principals who are not really teachers any longer but are managers and have a tough job given the amount of bodies they are responsible for, and all of the other difficulties that come with such jobs. They tend to work all year round and work long hours too. Pay varies depending on school size.
For your regular teacher, their pay goes up to around 60K but that’s after a lot of years and you’d want that when you’re that long in a job and trying to raise your own family. Unless you want monkeys.
Agree fully with equal pay for equal work. Pay of the older, burnt-out, don’t give a sh!t teachers should be reduced immediately. That will ensure parity.
hope all you temporarily embarrassed millionaires never find yourselves more embarrassed than you are at present..
Support and solidarity for all workers!
the teachers are the millionaires, that’s how much their pensions are worth
Good point about pensions; teachers, like all other civil servants of a certain age (there has been reform of this arrangement for new entrants – i think it might be since 2010) will retire with 2/3 their final salary. Someone else mentioned in the thread that they could earn 60k, meaning they would retire with an annual pension of 40k. If a private sector employee was to enjoy the same kind of pension on retirement they would have had to put about 1.5m euro into it.
rob, I’ve a pain in the butt hearing about private sector pensions. Whingers.
que? I’m a millionaire but not embarrassed
Where were the teachers Unions when entry level pay was cut 5 or 6 years ago? They were happy with inequality then as long as senior teachers retained their pay. If they were so interested in solidarity why didn’t they take a pay cut to send a little back to entry level teachers?
Only now when the economy is bouncing back are they up on their high horses talking about wage equity. pure opportunism.
Does this behavior automatically exclude them from universally acknowledged principle of equal pay?
Someone didn’t do something sometime ago and now no equal pay for anyone as punishment? Mmmm…. No human cause is pristine.
+1 diddy. The lack of a history lesson in all this is funny
The teachers pulled the ladder up behind them.
The ASTI have always been an awkward union. I’m not sure why they feel they deserve special treatment ahead of other public servants and refuse to be part of the Lansdowne Road Agreement. If the position of secondary school teachers was so awful, how is it that the TUI is happy to work with the government and try get back to parity pay without striking? Now the Government can’t give in to the ASTI without making the TUI look foolish and there’s no extra money there for teachers anyway.
+ 2.5billion euro every year to restore pay parity across the public sector immediately.
There is pay restoration already in progress for this year and the next, but it has to be done across all public employees at a sustainable level