President of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation John Boyle has said that teachers "will shut down schools" if there is no resolution to their pay dispute. Teachers will make the call for pay equality at the INTO's Annual Congress which gets underway in Killarney today. They represent 35,000 primary teachers in the Republic of Ireland and 7,000 teachers in the North. [/quote]"We've never feared to negotiate; we never negotiate out of fear and it may take stringent action before the Government realises that we are truly serious about pay equality." Topics likely to dominate the event include pay equality and restoration, industrial relations issues, funding of schools, workload and curriculum and special needs teaching.

Source: Evening echo April 02, 2018 06:33 UTC