Union threatens strike over further education funding

TEACHERS in the further education sector may consider going on strike if the Government does not deliver long-sought funding in next week’s budget, a union leader warned last night.

Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) president Paddy Healy said his organisation will exhaust every avenue in their campaign to have the McIver Report recommendations implemented.

The 2003 report, commissioned by the Department of Education, sets out major restructuring of the further education and Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses and colleges which are funded in the department’s second-level budget.