News & Events

 

Update on State Examinations Oral Examinations

(26 Mar 2009)
 Urgent information on State Examinations - please read.


Letters to TUI reps re: deferral of strike action and clarification

(26 Mar 2009)
 Letters issued to TUI representatives today re: deferral of strike action and clarification of second level directive.


TUI Executive Committee decides to defer strike action

(25 Mar 2009)
 TUI’s Executive Committee has decided to defer strike action scheduled for Monday, March 30th. The decision follows the Government’s invitation to ICTU to re-engage in talks on an economic recovery plan.


Important Information for TUI Members re: Industrial Action

(20 Mar 2009)
 Information related to strike action at Second and Third Level and the withdrawal of certain activities at Second Level and Third Level.


TUI Appalled at Further Curtailment of Higher Education

(16 Mar 2009)
 TUI today expressed its opposition to the proposals in respect of so called rationalisation of Higher Education as reported in today’s Irish Independent.


Information for members re: Examinations on 30th March

(16 Mar 2009)
 In the recent ballot, TUI members voted to take industrial action, including strike action of up to 2 days, in co-operation with the other teacher unions, in support of the 10-point plan for national recovery proposed by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.


Union to support ICTU’s one day work stoppage

(13 Mar 2009)
 The Executive Committee of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) decided at its meeting today (Friday) to support the ICTU’s one day work stoppage on 30th March in accordance with the ovewhelming mandate given to it by members.


‘School paper-pushing exercises detract from teaching’ – TUI

(10 Mar 2009)
 The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) today warned that time intensive bureaucratic requirements related to such non-teaching duties as Whole School Evaluations or School Development Planning may have to be re-examined in the coming months.


TUI Ballot for Industrial Action

(09 Mar 2009)
 Results of the ballot for industial action following the Government's imposition of the pension/income levy.


60,000 teachers vote for industrial action

(07 Mar 2009)
 The members of the teacher unions, the ASTI, INTO and TUI, have voted to take industrial action, up to and including strike action, over the government’s handling of the economic crisis.


TUI Backs ESRI position on retaining teachers

(05 Mar 2009)
 The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) today welcomed comments from the ESRI’s Research Professor John Fitzgerald that it is extremely inadvisable to fire teachers when they will clearly be needed again in the future when the economy begins to recover.


Exemption of semi-State bodies from levy ‘discriminatory and divisive’

(26 Feb 2009)
 The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) today described the exemption of workers in commercial semi-State bodies along with those in the private sector from bearing the imposed levy as being ‘discriminatory and divisive’.


TUI Urges Members to vote ‘Yes’ to Industrial Action

(23 Feb 2009)
 Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) members will this week vote on whether they are willing to take industrial action, including strike action of up to two days.


'Levy means teachers make 25% pension contribution'– TUI

(19 Feb 2009)
 The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) today highlighted that with the new so-called pension levy, teachers would effectively be paying up to 27% of salary in pension contributions.


Teacher unions urge members to participate in demonstration

(18 Feb 2009)
 The general secretaries and presidents of the four teacher unions are encouraging all members to attend Saturday's demonstration.



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