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THE GENERAL SECRETARY of the ASTI has said the planned industrial action by teachers is “not about money and not about pay”.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Pat King said that the action would only affect students “marginally” and that it was up to the Government to respond now that the union had “set out our stall”.
The ASTI confirmed last night that it will begin industrial action in secondary schools from tomorrow week, following a meeting of its exectutive members
Members rejected the Haddington Road deal on public sector pay last Friday, and voted for industrial action “up to and including strike action”.
The ‘no’ vote means members will now be subject to emergency financial legislation, which leaves no room for the restoration of pay cuts being brought in for other public sector workers who have signed up to the agreement.
17,000 ASTI members will withdraw from duties outside of normal school hours from 2 October; including school planning and policy meetings, staff and parent teacher meetings, and in-service training for teachers.
Members are also being directed to withdraw their co-operation from work on the new Junior Cycle Framework and not to take on any duties arising from vacated middle-management roles “unless they are pensionably remunerated”.
King said: “The Government now has to respond — we’ve set out our stall and that’s our position”.
“We don’t want to affect students, we are targetting administration work outside of school hours — work that will not target students.”
He said that the priority was not about pay but about the Government imposing a “changing of structures”.
Asked about the awkward situation members who voted in favour of Haddington Road would find themselves in, King said “it’s going to get very complicated, but the teachers have voted and I can’t argue with that”.
He reiterated that the union was available for talks at any time, adding: “This will have to be solved and it will be solved – the teachers have said ‘no’ to the Haddington Road Agreement”.
Another second level union, the TUI, last week voted to accept the deal.
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He can’t be more Irish than Barack O’Bama, surely?
That’s quite funny really because the majority of Obama’s ancestors are from shinrone not moneygall. As has been known since 2008, Shinrone, only 10 miles from Moneygall, is actually the farthest back to which President Obama’s Kearney family history has been traced and was regarded by them as the ancestral home. The president’s seventh-great-grandparents, Joseph (who was born in 1698 and lived to age 93) and Cicely Kearney, are buried at the graveyard here, along with many members of the Kearney family.
https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/shinrone-birthplace-and-resting-place-of-obamas-irish-ancestors-134924-May2011/&ved=0ahUKEwiK2-LxhbnNAhWBAsAKHQkxDSEQFggdMAE&usg=AFQjCNHTatyPsAWU1WmSHu3B5XPaqre-tA
@Damocles
Oh for crying out loud, would you look at the lick-ars* grovelling you are at. Going so far as to try to jokingly associate his african islamic name as being Irish, yet behind the joke is the agenda which says the Irish have no distinct lineage to a western European white people. How childish and what an example of the low self esteem mentality that pervades this country, no real pride in being Irish. We have a distinct ethnic composition and origin which is white western European, this is just fact, we are not an ethnic group of people from anywhere and made up of just anyone.
Every other ethnicity of every other race is permitted to proclaim their ethnic origins and lineage with pride, bout time the Irish did too.
A bit more Irish than O’ Bama, but not as Irish as Eddie Murphy.
sure if we go back far enough we’re all related!! ;)
I think it’s great that Americans take great pride in their heritage and roots.After all,99% of them are from somewhere else.On a side note,I only found out recently that a Cork man named the ‘United States of America’.
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/The-forgotten-Irishman-who-named-the-United-States-of-America.html
I would be more interested in his sons fracking company and how many government contracts it picked up
Honestly, who really cares?
So the closest link to Ireland is someone who Emigrated 166 years ago,…..It`s a pity he can`t play for Ireland using the “Parentage rule”, as he falls out of that category by a few generations.
And we could have done with another midfielder for Italy on Wednesday…
Your idea is not as far fetched as its sounds in relation to the Rep of Ireland v Belgium .
Actually if Bidens dad put his name on the FBR before Biden was born then VP Biden could put his name on the FBR and become an Irish citizen himself…. And play for Ireland….
Whoop whoop!!
* meant to say his mam not his dad
Every yank thinks they are Irish.
Except the Polish, chinese, African, Italian, Greek, German, Korean, Vietnamese Yanks, but then again, they don’t think they are Yanks either, so maybe the Yanks are descended from the original western European stock, so you are partially correct, seeing as the Irish and Scots-Irish made up a significant number of the founding people of the United States.
Yea but many Irish are from norse blow in stock…
No, not all Yanks think they’re Irish, but there are over 35 million in the US with Irish ancestry, and they are proud of it. Nothing wrong with that. And naturally you’d see many of them visiting Ireland because it’s in their genealogy.
Oh Jases… Not another one..
If Ireland were able to embarrass themsleves claiming the coloured Barack Obama is Irish I don’t think the “experts” are needed to pretend Biden has Irish roots.
You know what coloured implies yes?
10 of 16 great-great grandparents = “5/8 irish” is it? Good grief! Everything grand in Syria now is it?
Syria?
They are all proud of their roots that they only visit for a few days and run back. Can’t say I blame them this place has nothing only scenery. U.S has everything and more
Was in Canada on a family RV holiday in 80s as a teenager. One KOA campsite owner said he’d recently been to Ireland. I asked what he thought of Ireland and he answered “Depressing”…
I’m born and raised US and have visited Ireland more than once. Love it there! Great people, beautiful scenery, great food & drink. Prices were a bit higher for most things, but the euro had much to do with that.
Yes, the US has pretty much “everything”, but there are also some negative aspects that you don’t get as much of in Ireland. Both have good and bad points, but there’s just something incredibly charming about the Irish that makes it well worth a visit!
Shotgun Paddy
Who cares????
He’s from Scranton, the Electric City
Hay
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