Cream for managers — crumbs for workers
Members across the education sectors are dismayed and angry that their increasing workload and commitment to modernisation has not been recognised by the benchmarking process.
To them, benchmarking as a viable process to determine pay is seriously flawed, if not dead.
TUI will be examining the benchmarking process to ascertain if it is the appropriate forum for determining how pay is to be determined into the future and, if so, what changes in the process are required.
Social partnership must now be regarded as having been stretched to breaking point.
It is not partnership, social justice or an even vaguely fair system that allows for massive increases to people at the top and little or nothing for workers down the scale. There is something seriously wrong in the private sector and it is now being replicated in the public sector whereby low-paid workers are given little or no increases while senior managers award themselves huge sums.
Do Government and employers seriously expect us now to agree to further changes in work practices and sign up to a new national wage agreement that further restricts out ability to pursue legitimate claims?
Who is the finance minister to ask us to accept modest increases while the Government of which he is a member is prepared to accept huge pay increases, even if deferred for a year?
To borrow a phrase from another union, “No pay, no change”.
Tim O’Meara
President
Teachers’ Union of Ireland
73 Orwell Road
Rathgar
Dublin 6
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