Literacy tutors stage national protest over pay and working conditions

Cork ETB tutors Cecile McCann, Eileen O'Flaherty (Kerry ETB), Margie Fennelly, Elizabeth O'Brien, Clare Hatcher, and Anne Donnelly protest at the head office of Cork Education and Training Board on Lavitt's Quay, Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan

Adult literacy tutors have staged a national protest outside the offices of Education and Training Boards (ETBs) to highlight delays to a proposal to improve their pay and working conditions.

About 70 tutors picketed offices in Cork, Dublin, Drogheda, Clonmel, Mullingar and Wexford on Friday to highlight conditions which see them paid at an hourly rate, meaning many need to claim social welfare outside term times.