TUI recommends rejection of pay deal over 'disproportionate, unfair workload'

The Teachers Union of Ireland is to recommend its members reject the new public sector pay deal.

It follows a meeting of its executive committee yesterday evening, which heard that the proposals did not allay a number of significant concerns.

Union members will be ballotted in the Autumn on the measures hammered out last week.

Gerry Quinn, the President of the TUI, says they are objecting to provisions in previous pay agreements being kept on for the new deal.

He said: "The overarching problem is the proposal that a disproportionate, unfair and unsustainable workload - which was imposed firstly with Croke Park - will continue now beyond 2016."