Clare’s ASTI representative insists the union’s rejection of government pay proposals doesn’t mean a strike is on the cards.
But Geraldine O’Brien feels the secondary teachers union is sending a strong message to the Department of Education to go back to the drawing board and come up with an alternative to avoid that happening.
Under the plans that the ASTI and INTO have turned down, around 60,000 public servants who are on lower rates of pay would receive increases of about €3,000.
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But Geraldine O’Brien, who is a teacher in St Joseph’s Secondary School in Kilkee, says the same rules wouldn’t apply in Leinster House:
