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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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Piece of shit coward. Sits in his car, shoots from his car, does a legger in his car and when he was low on fuel he pulls into a petrol station.
Happens every day in parts of America, and you don’t hear of it because the majority of them are black
Supernova – are you saying black people commit the most shootings or reports aren’t newsworthy because it’s a picture we’ve seen thousands of times?
Most of the victims are black actually but does the race matter? A crime is a crime is a crime.
This is being portrayed as a mad man shooting but it seems like more of a gangland style deal.
Drivebys happen a lot in the US. There were 733 in 2014 alone with 154 deaths.
Yeah but I’m saying if the individual was black I don’t think it would have been a big a news story I’m afraid. If a white man gets killed all hell breaks loose.
Hang on, are you saying when a black man gets killed all hell *doesn’t* break loose?
Have you been watching the news coming out of the states for the last year or so?
I dunno how this has gone international? what about all the drive bys that happen in Compton?
If it was in America this happened you would have quadruple the comments on this story.
…and blaming the NRA.
You’d have quadruple the comments if it was the US because it happens every other week in the US, often happens to kids, and it’s once in a blue moon in other countries. The last one in Germany was 2010, we’ve had a dozen HUGE ones in the US since then.
Perfectly fair game to blame the NRA since they are the second most powerful lobby group in the US, and oppose even moderate gun regulations like preventing civilians from owning military grade weapons, and preventing people from the terrorist watch list or the mentally ill buying guns. You’ll notice we, who have one of the top 5 most conservative gun regs in the world, have never had a mass shooting, and the UK has not had one since the 70s when it adopted very similar rules.
Saadi news but why is it being reported here? We have shootings all the time between rival gangs, does that make news in Germany or is there something more to this?
hopefully it was Enda and Angela
Idiot of the highest order!
Tis an ill wind that blows through Bad Windsheim this morning.
when will the killing end. we need to get rid of guns altogether.
No, don’t be ridiculous. Then Billy the Kid and the ‘Hole in the Ground Gang’, not to mention the most evil German of all time, Kaiser Wilhelm II, will have a free reign.
his getaway car low on fuel. not very Mr Brooks was he.
So so sad. This senseless violence needs to stop.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was quite a decent guy. Just a bit egotistical I suppose. Britain vilified him in the Great War for propaganda purposes, that’s all.
@Ashley Brown. He also must have thought of other’s welfare as well,, for he brought in the first European pension and welfare programs,albeit at the behest of Chancellor Otto Von Bismark, without which we might still be fighting for them even now.
—”Social programs in Germany began in the 1880s.
“In November 1881, at the direction of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm I, issued a decree stating, “those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.”
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