TUI Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Teacher shortage now reaches “emergency levels”

By Kate Relihan The current teacher shortage crisis is an indictment of our education system and has reached ‘emergency levels’, according to the INTO. The ASTI also warns of schools ‘under enormous strain’ with hundreds of teaching positions vacant ahead of the

Sep 26, 2023

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Workers deserve real cost of living pay rises!

Text of the Socialist Party leaflet on the public sector pay deal. The call was clear from workers across all the public service union conferences earlier this year – real cost of living pay rises was demanded to match the galloping rate

Sep 9, 2022

News & Analysis

Leaving Cert – Students force Government change, but predictive grades not a solution

Blindsided by the third wave, the government maintained a fiction into January that a ‘traditional’ Leaving Cert could take place this summer. Such was Minister Foley’s pigheadedness that it took a revolt spearheaded by ASTI members, coupled with a fresh upsurge of

Mar 2, 2021

Cancel the Leaving Cert: Fight for a real alternative to the points system

By Keishia Taylor, Shane Finnan & Conor Tormey In 2020, as the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic raged, students campaigned using coordinated social media actions, petitions and huge online rallies, to cancel the Leaving Cert and won. Now in early

Feb 10, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic

Oppose Government plans to hold the Junior and Leaving Certs

By Michael O’Brien The high handed approach of the Department of Education and Science in their proposals for the state exams this year has provoked an angry reaction by teachers (and indeed school students sitting these exams), which is at odds with

Apr 13, 2020

Campaigns & Issues·Workplace News

Support teachers’ strike for equal pay

By Diarmuid Naessans, TUI (personal capacity) The Teachers Union of Irelands TUI campaign of strike action for Equal Pay for Equal Work will receive huge support from workers and the general public. New entrant teachers earn 14% less in the early years

Feb 3, 2020

News & Analysis

Teachers demand pay equality

The Socialist spoke to Socialist Party member Sandra Fay, a secondary school teacher in Tallaght and an activist in the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI). She spoke about the next steps for teachers’ quest for pay equality after the ASTI and

Jan 17, 2019

News & Analysis

INTO members reject bogus proposal to end two-tier pay

We spoke to two Socialist Party teacher activists about the ballot results on the government’s proposal to supposedly address two-tier pay. Kate Relihan, a member of the INTO reacted to the news that the proposal was rejected by 53% vote to 47%.

Nov 1, 2018

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Teacher shortage now reaches “emergency levels”

Workers deserve real cost of living pay rises!

Leaving Cert – Students force Government change, but predictive grades not a solution

Cancel the Leaving Cert: Fight for a real alternative to the points system

Oppose Government plans to hold the Junior and Leaving Certs

Support teachers’ strike for equal pay

Teachers demand pay equality

INTO members reject bogus proposal to end two-tier pay

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden