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A TEACHERS’ UNION has promised that it will take action if their members are targeted for redundancy.
Reports today suggested that teachers could become the first permanent public servants to lose their jobs – if the union rejects the Haddington Road deal again.
The Irish Independent said that a list of 30 schools, 29 of which have ASTI members, has been circulated by the Department of Education, identifying 48 teaching posts that could be abolished.
Individual teachers have not been identified and deciding who would be let go would be the remit of individual schools.
The ASTI will ballot on the deal for a third time in the coming weeks. ASTI is the only teachers’ union to have rejected the deal thus far.
The roles identified are teachers who are above the official required quota.
However, the ASTI was quick to react to the reports, saying that it had outlined the implications of the deal to their members.
“The ASTI has provided full information to its members on the implications of the Haddington Road ballot which takes place this week. This includes information on pay cuts, supervision and substitution, redeployment and the possibility of redundancies.
The ASTI will take strong action if any member is identified for redundancy.
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Good to see this sort of stuff!
In fairness NASA are great at this sort of thing. Their astronauts give loads of their time in ISS to education.
… at this sort of thing too.
@Paraic McDonagh: Nasa ARE great at this. They’ve been faking it since the beginning. So good at it now that it nearly appears real. Pity they can’t push past the 600 mile mile Van Allen belt limitation though. Spoils the whole show.
Fantastic opportunity for these young kids. I am very jealous!
Brilliant for these schools.
Apparently we’re all on a big ball, rotating at a speed of 1000mph and further rotating around a Sun, at 67,000mph. In addition, all of that is hurtling through an infinite universe at speeds up in the 100s of 1000s of mph – yet I feel absolutely zero vibration, lateral movement, or rotational pull from it all.
Do you?
@Patrick Mac: And isn’t it interesting that when the Navy projects their 2″ missile beam across over the surface of the seas boasting up to 60 mile of accurate range, they never see any radius or curvature on the sea plain, impeding their view across the 60 mile span. The rise in the middle across 60 miles should be .45 of a mile. I think one would notice that.
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