‘We will not stand idly by’ if pay is cut

The education system cannot be funded by getting teachers to pay for it by cutting their pay and eroding working conditions, Teachers’ Union of Ireland president Bernie Ruane said.

She said teachers and lecturers have had their salaries decimated and conditions were being whittled away.

“Soon we will not attract our best and brightest into the teaching and lecturing profession. It is time now to stop the erosion of our pay and working conditions. Enough is enough.”