Teachers Union vote for strike action

national | worker & community struggles and protests | news report Saturday March 07, 2009 13:26 by Teachers United - Teachers United teachersunited09 at gmail dot com

Teachers have voted to take industrial action, which may include a strike, over education cuts and the pension levy.

The ballot involved 60,000 members of the Association of Secondary Teachers, the Irish National Teachers Organisation and the Teachers Union of Ireland.

Teachers United Meeting
to discuss the result of the vote
Monday 9th March @ 8pm,
Teachers Club
(All Welcome)

This vote has set down a marker now saying very clearly that we will not be made to pay for the recklessness of the bankers, the property developers, the politicians and business elite

120,000 workers from the public and private sector marched through Dublin last week. Thousands of low paid civil servants have already taken one day strike action. This government’s satisfaction level is at rock bottom. People know that what is going on is unfair and wrong. We need to fight now to protect our wages, our pensions and our public services.
We need to see a one day national stoppage of all public sector workers as a first step to remove the levy. This should be part of a determined campaign in all unions to have the levy removed.

The National Public Service Alliance have called for support for a set of key demands in a public statement,
see: http://www.scrapthelevy.wordpress.com