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FOLLOWING A SECOND vote on the Government pay deal, members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) have voted to accept the latest proposals under the Haddington Road Agreement.
A ballot of the union’s 17,000 members resulted in a 57 per cent to 43 per cent acceptance of the proposals.
Vote
The latest Haddington Road proposals contain a number of new commitments to teachers including a commitment to address the issue of the high number of teachers on short-term and part-time contracts, the establishment of a working group to consider the ASTI’s concern about junior cycle reform and a new agreement on best use of the Croke Park hours.
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has welcomed the acceptance of the Haddington Road Agreement.
The ASTI rejected the deal in a vote in September which led to subsequent industrial action by teachers when they refused to attend meetings that took place outside of normal school hours or take on any extra duties without additional pay.
Union leader
Union leaders had urged secondary teachers to reject the new proposals, however commenting on the result today ASTI General Secretary Pat King said:
This is the third time that ASTI members have been balloted on the Haddington Road Agreement.These ballots have taken place in the context of five years of education cutbacks, deteriorating terms and conditions for teachers, and Government decisions to breach the Croke Park Agreement and unilaterally impose the draconian FEMPI (Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) legislation on ASTI members.
Members have had to make a most difficult decision.
He added that teachers will work to ensure that the new commitments in the deal are fully implemented within appropriate time frames.
He warned, however, that the ASTI has informed the Department of Education and Skills that “any failure by the Government to meet its commitments under the Haddington Road Agreement, including any delay in the implementation of those commitments, would be unacceptable to the ASTI and would be met with strong action from the union”.
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You forgot to ask, “how many genocides are they committing right now?”. Or “how many deadly viruses did their negligence unleash upon the world?”. “How many cigarettes a day is Beijing air the equivalent of smoking”… I could go on.
@Thomas Smyth: I guess ye didn’t bother with the quiz Thomas.
@Thomas Smyth: well, there’s the Tibetans, the uighurs, there Mongols and many other minority groups. I suppose when it comes to diseases ther’s sars, mers, bird flu, swine flu, man flu, covid 19. With regards to air pollution in Beijing it would depend on what we’re smoking, john player or major?
Why is the journal obsessed over China?
I know that they are still preventing Irish citizen Richard O’Halloran from returning home to Ireland and to his family.
3/10 and I lived there for 2 years
@Mattress Dick: 4/10 I lived there 3 years so dont feel upset!
@Mattress Dick: 2/10. I order Chinese food once a week.
Again I asked earlier in the week….why all the pro China articles?
A great bunch of lads
Overweight people question: two thirds is the same as over half…… Over half is too ambiguous
@Paul Hedderman: anything under 66.6% is above half but not two thirds. Just as 66.7% would be over two thirds
9,000 Paddys doing us proud no doubt.
Zero
Small build of People with a Big Virus
I got 0. Guess I don’t know anything about China. Oh well, I’ll just go back to being awesome.
@aidan mccormack: yes nothing fills me with more awe than ignorance of China.
They’ve a lot of millionaires, I was surprised at that.
@Bert Carolan: who do you think is buying all our new housing projects?
@Paul’s TEFL adventures: just a little step towards the super power they will eventually come.
@Bert Carolan: considering the size of their population it’s a very small amount.
@JustHereForTheComments: to be fair to the Irish government, I couldn’t see them starting a new disease and denying all claims about the source of the disease.
@Sparky: the CCP obviously snapped up a few shares in the Journal and they’re just trying to keep on the right side of their overlords……..
Quality child labour practices,…..
@Eoin Fitzgerald: unlike the honest Irish government.
Is Simon Coveney funding all this pro china journal propaganda while they imprison an Irish citizen?
7/10. Greater China could mean all of the nations in the South China sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and more according to the CCP so thats a right puzzler. There is a decent amount of Irish folk in Taiwan having creamy pints though.
@Paul Cunningham: Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan are not countries
Former British , Portuguese colonies.Taiwan taken from China by Japan until end of WW2, now occupied by desendents of defeated nationalists
They are all part of China.
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@Donal Desmond: Sure ask a Hong Konger or Taiwanese person that and you deserve to get your head knocked out like the lad in Jervis street.
@Donal Desmond: Says your man with the Easter lily as his profile pic. By your reckoning we’re all British so are we but just occupied by Irish nationalists?
@Donal Desmond: Found Coveney’s account.
The Chinese ‘A great bunch of lads’
Sure dey love de Irish and 94.7% of them love de hurlin and watch d’all Ireland. Chinese girls dream of marrying Sir Henry Shefflin and having kids that play for Tsingtao Kickhams,
The wiggle woggle said
When I’m standing on my head
I can see the coast of China
And it’s very very red..
” spike milligan”
Hou Hi is a Chinaman?
4/10, still laughing at me innocently clicking on 4 languages as my first guess.
@#FreePalestine: Nobody will ever admit to how covid started. The Chinese know but they will never spit it out. Was it started in a lad, eating bats? Nobody will ever know.
Ah lads ..not even a question on how many bicycles are in Beijing!!
@Eoin Fitzgerald: Sorry what makes Chinese people liars?
@Paul Gorry: I would consider SF bullsh*ters. FF are cute hoors and FG a boring party. Yes they probably lie to a small extent but on the scale of the Chinese.
@Eoin Fitzgerald: spoken like a politician in the making there eion fair play.
As much as I’d ever want to!!!
@Eoin Fitzgerald: But the Irish government are probably liars!!! Agree or disagree?
****not to the scale of the chinese
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