Teachers protest to highlight pay inequality
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) said the pay inequality issue — which has seen teachers and lecturers who started work in 2011 being paid less than their colleagues for the same work — has triggered a collapse in applications to post-primary teacher training courses and devastated morale in staffrooms across the country.
“There has been a 62% collapse in applications for post-primary teacher training courses since 2011, while a TUI survey in 2017 showed that 29% of new or recent entrants to the profession did not see themselves in the job in 10 years,” the union said last night.
