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The two main teachers’ unions will be holding in-person conferences for the first time in two years today.
Students had a choice last year whether to sit an exam or receive an accredited grade.
Education Minister Norma Foley said that the next few weeks would be challenging.
The teachers union will ask the Department of Health to introduce ‘a delayed and staggered reopening’ of schools at a meeting tomorrow.
Emergency measures include an increased involvement of student teachers and retired teachers.
Pregnant people cannot register for a Covid-19 vaccine prior to 14 weeks’ gestation.
The conferences of the country’s three teacher trade unions are continuing today.
The decision to overhaul the vaccine plan has sparked anger from teachers who expected to be vaccinated sooner.
Talks have been ongoing for weeks between the government and unions.
The ASTI has said the minister has agreed to work on the union’s concerns.
The ASTI said that its concerns had been addressed by Minister for Education Norma Foley.
It’s been a chaotic 24 hours.
The union has said that the plans from the department would not provide a “meaningful Leaving Certificate” for students.
A teachers’ union wants safety measures in schools to be reviewed in the context of the new, more transmissible strains.
The union has said that the proposal involves a “continuation of unequal pay for thousands of second-level teachers”.
ASTI members have voted to take industrial action over ‘key coronavirus issues’ in Irish schools.
The ASTI voted to authorise strike action if a number of issues are not addressed.
The union president said teachers are “demanding that the government step up” and provide solutions.
Under Level 5 restrictions, schools would remain open but most other businesses would be closed
It said ASTI members had “serious concerns” about the health and safety of school communities.
Teachers’ unions will appear before the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee today.
Education Minister Joe McHugh has welcomed the development.
The ASTI has said that teachers need to be fully protected if there is a legal challenge to calculated grades.
The main teachers’ union said it still has “a number of major concerns” with the new Leaving Cert plan.
TUI members are set to strike on 4 February over pay inequality.
In other countries excessive bureaucracy has led to the demoralisation of teachers, writes ASTI President Breda Lynch.
The ASTI’s executive will meet shortly to consider the outcome of the ballot.
The union will meet next Wednesday to agree on a ballot for industrial action, up to and including a strike.
Unions have voted in favour of industrial action if pay inequality is not addressed.
Richard Bruton is due to address the annual conference of the ASTI teachers’ union this morning.
A ballot of members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) rejected the government’s new public pay deal this evening.
The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
Industrial action led to the closure of over 500 schools in November.
It’s three weeks since the current talks process began.
The next few months look bleak for industrial relations in the public sector, writes Dr Michelle O’Sullivan.
The agreement to suspend the action has been welcomed by the government and education bodies.
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