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Tuesday 20 October 2020
Briefing ministers yesterday, the Health team said that “children were safer in schools”.
NPHET has recommended that the entire country enter Level 5 – the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions.
Under Level 5 restrictions, schools would remain open but most other businesses would be closed
Students can also apply to sit the postponed exams in November.
The TUI also claimed that releasing the rank order will be “profoundly damaging to the student-teacher relationship”.
The UK’s biggest operator will close 166 shops due to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Strict new coronavirus measures are now in effect – here’s what they mean for you.
Teachers’ unions will appear before the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee today.
Over 90% of the Teachers Union of Ireland’s 19,000 members voted in favour of taking industrial action today.
TUI members are set to strike on 4 February over pay inequality.
The dispute centres around the big pay differences in the early years of employment between those hired before and after 2011.
The TUI says that big pay differences still occur between teachers hired before and after 2011.
The ongoing nurses’ strike was suspended on Monday following a Labour Court recommendation on pay and conditions.
The union will meet next Wednesday to agree on a ballot for industrial action, up to and including a strike.
President of the Teacher’s Union of Ireland Seamus Lahart says students, schools and teachers will suffer if action is not taken to address the recruitment and retention crisis.
The Education Minister said smartphone use by students “increasingly caused concern”.
Unions have voted in favour of industrial action if pay inequality is not addressed.
Education Minister Richard Bruton said that it isn’t possible to negotiate a deal for teachers separate to other public sectors.
How many times do you think you’ve seen it this week? A million? Million and one?
A ballot of members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) rejected the government’s new public pay deal this evening.
The TUI said the deal wasn’t good enough.
The TUI said that the vote did not mean the vaccine or its effectiveness was being questioned.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland carried out a survey that indicates teachers’ morale at work is low because of the public pay dispute.
The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) had threatened industrial action over pay allowances
Bruton said that while the recruitment and appointment of teachers is a matter for the individual school.
The TUI will effectively be signing up to the terms of The Landsdowne Road Agreement.
2016 has not been a good year for industrial relations.
The TUI has today called for an end to unequal salaries for teachers.
The union said a 1% levy on profits could be used to remove the €3,000 student registration fee.
The industrial action was due to impact about 350 schools across the country.
Classes are off for most students at the country’s 14 technology institutes as lecturers go on strike.
The TUI said fresh pay restoration legislation ignores its members’ rejection of the Lansdowne Road Agreement.
Union says academics’ working hours are far greater than established norms.
The Irish Medical Organisation does not feel the new agreement will do enough to stop doctors leaving the country.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland feel that the issue of ‘flex’ hour contracts has not been dealt with sufficiently.
Unions say half of all teachers under 30 are now on part-time work arrangements.
Unions have rejected the draft document but say it may form the basis for discussions.
Will it mean peace in our time?
Who’ll blink first in the junior cycle row? Not the teachers, by the sounds of it… TheJournal.ie stopped by one city centre picket this morning to take the temperature.
Around 330,000 second level students will have a day off tomorrow, as teachers go on strike again.
Teachers will hold their second strike on Thursday 22 January.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
What do you think: Should vegetarian foods be allowed use words like ‘steak’ and ‘burger’?
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