Teachers call ‘fake news’ on Government’s equal pay claims
After Education Minister Richard Bruton backtracked this week on a previous suggestion that unions did not prioritise restoring equal pay for newer entrants, a government figure told the Irish Examiner that unions did not take their chance to make the matter a priority.
In Killarney this week, Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) general secretary Sheila Nunan made clear to Mr Bruton that lower pay scales for new teachers were imposed at the end of 2010 on the profession and not, as he previously stated, agreed to by them.
