# tui - Saturday 23 April, 2022
# Assault
# Assault
Unions have demanded that better supports are available to teachers who have been assaulted by students.
# tui - Monday 10 January, 2022
# State Exams
# State Exams
Students had a choice last year whether to sit an exam or receive an accredited grade.
# tui - Wednesday 5 January, 2022
# Re-opening
# Re-opening
Education Minister Norma Foley said that the next few weeks would be challenging.
# tui - Tuesday 4 January, 2022
# Back To School
The Department of Education said there was no public health rationale to delay the reopening. The ASTI has said that some classes may be prioritised if adequate teaching staff was not available. The leaders of the three government coalition parties also met this afternoon and green lit the plans for schools.
# tui - Monday 29 November, 2021
# Substitute Teachers
# Substitute Teachers
Emergency measures include an increased involvement of student teachers and retired teachers.
# tui - Friday 1 October, 2021
# Schools
# Schools
Senior government members have said a bonus payment for frontline workers is under consideration.
# tui - Friday 13 August, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Pregnant people cannot register for a Covid-19 vaccine prior to 14 weeks’ gestation.
# tui - Wednesday 30 June, 2021
# State Exams
# State Exams
Additional choice was incorporated in Junior and Leaving Cert exams this year and will again next year.
# tui - Monday 12 April, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
A million students and staff are back in school today.
# tui - Wednesday 7 April, 2021
# Teachers
# Teachers
The conferences of the country’s three teacher trade unions are continuing today.
# tui - Tuesday 6 April, 2021
# Vaccine Rollout
The conferences of the country's three teacher trade unions started online today Unions are unhappy about the revised vaccination rollout based on age and not profession Education Minister Norma Foley has addressed delegates at the INTO Congress
# tui - Wednesday 17 February, 2021
# Junior Cert
# Junior Cert
Minister for Education Norma Foley briefed teaching unions on the plans this afternoon.
# tui - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
Talks have been ongoing for weeks between the government and unions.
# tui - Tuesday 15 December, 2020
# Public Servants' Pay
# Public Servants' Pay
Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath published the details of the public pay deal today.
# tui - Wednesday 18 November, 2020
# Your Say
# Your Say
The teachers’ union is suggesting schools close on Friday 18 December.
# Wellbeing
# Wellbeing
Schools are due to close on Tuesday 22 December; the TUI is suggesting that they instead close on Friday 18 December.
# tui - Monday 9 November, 2020
# Calculated Grades
# Calculated Grades
The teachers’ union has said that certainty must be given to students now, seven months from when the written State exams are held.
# tui - Thursday 22 October, 2020
# TUI
# TUI
The survey, carried out amid a recent surge in Covid-19 cases, highlights concern among the profession.
# tui - Sunday 18 October, 2020
# TUI
# TUI
Briefing ministers yesterday, the Health team said that “children were safer in schools”.
# tui - Monday 5 October, 2020
# Lockdown
# Lockdown
NPHET has recommended that the entire country enter Level 5 – the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions.
# Teachers
# Teachers
Under Level 5 restrictions, schools would remain open but most other businesses would be closed
# tui - Monday 28 September, 2020
# Calculated Grades
# Calculated Grades
Students can also apply to sit the postponed exams in November.
# tui - Wednesday 23 September, 2020
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
The TUI also claimed that releasing the rank order will be “profoundly damaging to the student-teacher relationship”.
# tui - Thursday 30 July, 2020
# Travel
# Travel
The UK’s biggest operator will close 166 shops due to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
# tui - Thursday 2 July, 2020
# New Guidelines
# New Guidelines
Teachers’ unions will appear before the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee today.
# tui - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
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
# Pay Dispute
# Pay Dispute
TUI members are set to strike on 4 February over pay inequality.
# tui - Friday 17 January, 2020
# Pay Dispute
# Pay Dispute
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
# Pay Discrimination
# Pay Discrimination
The TUI says that big pay differences still occur between teachers hired before and after 2011.
# tui - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
# TUI
# TUI
The ongoing nurses’ strike was suspended on Monday following a Labour Court recommendation on pay and conditions.
# tui - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
# Equal Pay For Equal Work
# Equal Pay For Equal Work
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
# Opinion
# Opinion
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
# Education
# Education
The Education Minister said smartphone use by students “increasingly caused concern”.
# tui - Tuesday 3 April, 2018
# New Teachers
# New Teachers
Unions have voted in favour of industrial action if pay inequality is not addressed.
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
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
How many times do you think you’ve seen it this week? A million? Million and one?
# tui - Thursday 14 September, 2017
# Education
# Education
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 - Friday 21 April, 2017
# Vaccinations At School
# Vaccinations At School
The TUI said that the vote did not mean the vaccine or its effectiveness was being questioned.
# tui - Monday 17 April, 2017
# Pay Restoration
# Pay Restoration
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland carried out a survey that indicates teachers’ morale at work is low because of the public pay dispute.
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