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.
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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.
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:
