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# tui - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
'The hypocrisy of it really bothers me': Secondary school teachers on why they're striking today
Over 90% of the Teachers Union of Ireland’s 19,000 members voted in favour of taking industrial action today.
# tui - Wednesday 22 January, 2020
Teachers' Union 'expects a lot of schools to close' during strike action
TUI members are set to strike on 4 February over pay inequality.
# tui - Friday 17 January, 2020
Teachers' Union of Ireland 'left with no choice' but to strike next month over 'pay discrimination'
The dispute centres around the big pay differences in the early years of employment between those hired before and after 2011.
# tui - Wednesday 28 August, 2019
Teachers to be balloted for strike action next month
The TUI says that big pay differences still occur between teachers hired before and after 2011.
# tui - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
'There are always consequences': Minister responds to claim teachers may seek pay rise following recommendation on nurses
The ongoing nurses’ strike was suspended on Monday following a Labour Court recommendation on pay and conditions.
# tui - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
Primary schools braced for strike action as INTO to ballot on next move
The union will meet next Wednesday to agree on a ballot for industrial action, up to and including a strike.
# tui - Friday 28 September, 2018
Proof that we need pay restoration: Schools are resorting to offering accomodation in order to attract teachers
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.
# tui - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
Parents and students will be able to have their say on the use of smartphones in schools
The Education Minister said smartphone use by students “increasingly caused concern”.
# tui - Tuesday 3 April, 2018
Richard Bruton heckled at conference as teachers threaten to strike over pay issues
Unions have voted in favour of industrial action if pay inequality is not addressed.
'We've been hit quite a few times': Teachers' union on why pay changes are needed
Education Minister Richard Bruton said that it isn’t possible to negotiate a deal for teachers separate to other public sectors.
# tui - Sunday 31 December, 2017
From The Daily Edge 
For everyone who finds themselves inexplicably enraged by that TUI ad
How many times do you think you’ve seen it this week? A million? Million and one?
# tui - Thursday 14 September, 2017
Bruton says he can't restore young teachers' pay as it would mean cutting children's resources
A ballot of members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) rejected the government’s new public pay deal this evening.
# tui - Thursday 8 June, 2017
TUI heads say they will recommend membership reject the new public sector pay deal
The TUI said the deal wasn’t good enough.
# tui - Friday 21 April, 2017
Teachers' union pass motion asking for review of HPV vaccine scheme
The TUI said that the vote did not mean the vaccine or its effectiveness was being questioned.
# tui - Monday 17 April, 2017
Gap between teachers' pay is affecting staff morale - union survey
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland carried out a survey that indicates teachers’ morale at work is low because of the public pay dispute.
# tui - Wednesday 24 August, 2016
Talks on restoring pay allowances for teachers to conclude next month
The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) had threatened industrial action over pay allowances
# tui - Sunday 14 August, 2016
"Hire unemployed teachers ahead of retired ones" says minister
Bruton said that while the recruitment and appointment of teachers is a matter for the individual school.
# tui - Monday 30 May, 2016
TUI votes to accept government proposals over pay and work hours
The TUI will effectively be signing up to the terms of The Landsdowne Road Agreement.
# tui - Sunday 29 May, 2016
Will there be a summer of strikes? There's trouble brewing on several fronts
2016 has not been a good year for industrial relations.
# tui - Monday 28 March, 2016
Unequal pay is driving graduates away from teaching, says union
The TUI has today called for an end to unequal salaries for teachers.
# tui - Thursday 24 March, 2016
Should businesses help to fund higher education? The TUI thinks so
The union said a 1% levy on profits could be used to remove the €3,000 student registration fee.
# tui - Friday 12 February, 2016
Kids, you're going to school: Teachers call off strike
The industrial action was due to impact about 350 schools across the country.
# tui - Wednesday 3 February, 2016
'We come back to work every year to find fewer and fewer lecturers'
Classes are off for most students at the country’s 14 technology institutes as lecturers go on strike.
# tui - Wednesday 18 November, 2015
Teachers to be balloted for industrial action over pay, working conditions
The TUI said fresh pay restoration legislation ignores its members’ rejection of the Lansdowne Road Agreement.
# tui - Monday 22 June, 2015
Academics at Irish colleges stressed over 'flex' hours contracts
Union says academics’ working hours are far greater than established norms.
# tui - Friday 5 June, 2015
Forget about it: Doctors next group to turn down public sector pay deal
The Irish Medical Organisation does not feel the new agreement will do enough to stop doctors leaving the country.
# tui - Wednesday 3 June, 2015
Teachers' union set to reject new €2,000-increase pay agreement
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland feel that the issue of ‘flex’ hour contracts has not been dealt with sufficiently.
# tui - Monday 6 April, 2015
Young teachers are facing an 'increasingly bleak reality'
Unions say half of all teachers under 30 are now on part-time work arrangements.
# tui - Friday 13 February, 2015
Teachers are miffed Junior Cert details were leaked to newspaper
Unions have rejected the draft document but say it may form the basis for discussions.
# tui - Friday 6 February, 2015
Teacher unions to consider new proposals on junior cycle reform
Will it mean peace in our time?
# tui - Thursday 22 January, 2015
"It's not a holiday for us ... it will actually cause more work"
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.
# tui - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
Taoiseach says teachers' strike is avoidable, but they don't agree
Around 330,000 second level students will have a day off tomorrow, as teachers go on strike again.
# tui - Friday 12 December, 2014
Secondary school teachers are going on strike for a second day
Teachers will hold their second strike on Thursday 22 January.
# tui - Tuesday 2 December, 2014
No resolution in sight for striking teachers
The action today has seen 27,000 of the country’s teachers taking industrial action.
Poll: Do you support the teachers strike?
Students have a day off as teachers take action over proposed Junior Cert reforms.
# tui - Monday 1 December, 2014
Teachers are almost certainly going on strike tomorrow
Neither the minister nor the unions will budge.
# tui - Friday 14 November, 2014
Secondary teachers are going on strike in December
Two days of action are going ahead. The first is on 2 December.
# tui - Tuesday 11 November, 2014
Jan O'Sullivan rules out any more compromise on her Junior Cycle reforms
Teaching unions rejected a revised set of proposals today.
# tui - Friday 8 August, 2014
This man wants to stop the 'silly charade' and run for the Seanad
Gerard Craughwell believes the forthcoming Seanad by-election is “a sham”
# tui - Tuesday 22 April, 2014
TUI chief: Woe betide the Government if it reneges on Haddington promises
John MacGabhainn’s also calling for the TUI and the ASTI to merge, in order to deal in a more unified way with threats and challenges in the sector.
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Poll: Will you take up a new hobby over the next few weeks?
LAST WEEK, TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar announced further restrictions for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, 12 April.
Everybody in Ireland has been told to stay at home for two weeks, except essential workers travelling to work and other exceptions.
People who do leave their homes for exercise will be required to stay within a 2km radius.
Shielding or cocooning has also be introduced for all of those over 70 years of age and specific categories of people who are extremely vulnerable to Covid-19.
With everyone being asked to stay at home, people may find themselves with a lot more free time on their hands than usual.
So, today we want to know: Will you take up a new hobby over the next few weeks?
Poll Results:
No, I'm still working and haven't got a minute (466)
Yes, I plan to take up a new hobby (262)
No, I'll spend my time staring at the TV (145)
I'm not sure / no opinion (136)
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