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McDermotX

Do you have a pension, boss ?

mountain

shouldn’t this be under

Sophisticated scams?
shyster

McDermotX

If Michael wasn't freshly banned from phonelines, he'd be on to tell you some home truths, for free.

zell12

Do we have to call a 1550 number?

dvcireland

"…electronics…"

McDermotX

It's almost like they're describing jobs required of a school secretary

Mad

jetfiremuck

so a secretary with 14 degrees where the job requires the leaving cert as entry why would that job be worth the teachers rate? Answering phones yada yada no responsibility per se ….. cmon.

jetfiremuck

bereavement here we go. Take a personal day ffs

zell12

double death!

McDermotX

That's terrible about bereavements.......took the required force majeure or personal time I assume that you're already entitled to ?

archfi

Good first day for Cormac - helped by Michael the master baiter.

2smiggy

Table 3: Cumulative earnings of teachers on the ‘pre’ and ‘post’ 2011 scale, 2019

WOW , so to speak, and WOW being a teacher and not knowing about it

Benicetomonty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123733082#Comment_123733082

All public sector workers then? Not just teachers?

The decision to implement these cuts was devised unilaterally by the govt of the day. Teachers were uniquely affected by it because just about every other public service body had a moratorium on recruitment so the only 'new entrants' to suffer the new payscales and pension were teachers.

The measures were roundly rejected by Teacher unions when they rejected the Croke Park agreement. As usual, teachers were torn apart in the media and the wider public for having the audacity to not throw on the 'green jersey' and suck it up for the good of the country. Regardless, they were bound by the agreement because the majority of ICTU had accepted it and were threatened with redundancies, not pay cuts, if it was repudiated.

When the Croke Part 2 agreement was proposed, it was rejected by almost every union, so the govt then threw out Haddington Road, which was the same thing except this time, if it was rejected, public servants, including teachers, who were over quota would be made redundant instead of the usual mechanism of redeployed. So to save the jobs of current members, the agreement was 'accepted' (bullied through) at the expense of non members. And even then, under a lot of protest and controversy; it was rejected in September 2013 and was only 'accepted' in December of that year. There was huge resistance within the unions, to the point where the ASTI general sec of the time expressed the year after that he had faced death threats for being, in the perception of some members, overly compliant in his dealings with the dept and the govt, culminating in the implementation of the reformed Junior Cert (one of the conditions of HR was that teachers had to sign up to this no questions asked).

Since 2012, nobody in the country has fought harder to have these measures reversed than teachers, which has resulted in several bouts of industrial action and and an increment freeze for 12 months for ASTI members. Any progress that has been made in the equalisation of pay scales is almost entirely attributable to teaching unions.

To think for a second that teachers wanted seperate pay scales and a worse pension for new entrants is disingenuous in the extreme. The general public condemned them to it long before teachers had any say.

golondrinas

This wan advertising The Rose. I'm out

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123733107#Comment_123733107

He's not Brendan O'Connor.

zell12

I heard Loneliness Epidemic on the promo

mountain

Duffy!
Duffy!
Duffy!!

ondafly

cringe factor he says; proceeds to say Geldof…

BPKS

Aubrey gets a vote before Joe

golondrinas

Some people have no clue

2smiggy

we are going to be paying Michael D till he leaves this earth, so may as well just stick with him till then.

SaoPaulo41

Oh we are such a weird nation.

cher nobyl

Has anyone mentioned bertie or eamon o cuiv yet

McDermotX

Good jaysus

Dublin Calling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123735962#Comment_123735962

That is why I voted for him for a second term, despite him lying about only going do a single term. It was the cheapest option for the Taxpayer.

SaoPaulo41

Honestly if Heather Humolphries gets it , it will be 5 years of service plugs for me any time she speaks. She starts and finishes every sentence with "eh" really inelloquent

BPKS

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123735961#Comment_123735961

Exhibit F: Johnny Logan

golondrinas

thats a great Claremorris accent

SaoPaulo41

Jesus wept Johnny logan lol

McDermotX

We should have birthplace requirement just to stop stuff like Johnny Logan being suggested