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THE TEACHERS’ UNION OF IRELAND (TUI) has voted in favour of a motion that instructs its executive committee not to re-enter talks on Croke Park 2 with either government or management and to reject any imposition of proposals on its memebers.
The union today held its conference in Galway, voting on several motions in relation to the proposals for the new Croke Park Agreement.
One of the emergency motions voted on today instructs the executive committee to withdraw from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) if attempts are made to impose proposals on members.
In the event that the government or ICTU tries to impose the proposals under the new Croke Park deal on TUI members, the union has voted to ballot for industrial action including strike action.
Over 80 percent of TUI members, made up of post-primary teachers and higher education lecturers, voted to reject the proposals under the new agreement in the union’s first ballot last month.
Today the union proposed that should the government move to impose any change to conditions already rejected by members of TUI in the democratic ballot of members, members will immediately desist from participating in any or all of the following:
Speaking to TheJournal.ie this evening Deputy General Secretary of the TUI Annette Dolan said it was now a matter of waiting for the outcome of other ballots to get an overview of members’ opinions.
Earlier today, Education Minister Ruairí Quinn was heckled by teachers waving red cards in the air during his address at the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation annual conference in Cork.
Quinn is due to speak at the TUI conference in Galway tomorrow and Dolan said she expects he will be “received courteously” by members. She said the union always “made a point of engaging in a dialogue with the minister”.
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Hong Kong’s great days are well gone- I would not even transfer flights there again. Nothing patriotic about his “election”
The lease was up, the British handed it back, there was some assurances given by Beijing at the time but this was just lip service, it’s part of China now, what did we really think was going to happen? This is how China rules, most of the mainlanders were questioning why HK was getting special treatment. That Beijing is not liked in Shanghai either.
@SPQH: *that said, Beijing is not liked by the average Shanghai person either
@SPQH: The Hong Kong man is very real there. Should we also give the CCP Taiwan, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, all of the south China Sea islands, Macau, Mongolia, north India and more simply because of what the CCP claims is historically part of China?
@Paul Cunningham: you’re making an argument where there isn’t one to be made. It wasn’t a claim, it was on a lease. The UK handed back, no one is handing back any of these other places. What’s you’re argument about? That China has leased all these other places?
@Paul Cunningham: I’m not pro China btw, I’m just pointing out that I’m not surprised the way it’s unfolded, and I fear for ROC/Taiwan
Stripping out every value of democracy that HK was supposed to enjoy for another few decades but keeping all the financial institutions of course. it’s all about money, never the people.
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