The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), which represents some 19,000 members in secondary schools, colleges of further and adult education, institutes of technology and universities, announced a strike for 4 February 2020. The dispute centres around the big pay differences between those hired before and after 2011. New secondary school teachers earn 10% less in the first 10 years of their career than they would have before the recession-era cutbacks were implemented.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca or Sjaak van der Velden, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org.
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