Where did you get this salary scale from? I have never seen such a short salary scale in my life.
Secondly nobody would reach the top of that salary scale for at least 10-15 years or somebody with 10-15 years of experience.
Do not forget that the likely candidate to get this job would probably have a masters degree and a doctorate. These are high calibre individuals.
They also conduct a lot of research as well as lecturing.
Where did it say that the person gets 40 days leave per annum??
I knew I would be right about the nurses union - they are picketing the hospices again as in 1999. Just on the news now. So dying patients are being targeted again. Shame on them
ASTI members only had to picket for an hour and a half and then off to shop.My cousin's wife, a teacher in Co. Galway, is on the picket line for 20 mins.
A recruitment drive took place in the last few weeks...
Now, apparently, we are going on strike in two weeks time and in December for 3 days! Well they will be going on strike without me and my 4 workmates and we will keep the office open to the public. We've had enough of them.
Well said. I wonder how deep the union pockets are. We will soon find out.
Which union? Did you not check about their plans and intentions before you signed up?The union, which I only joined a month ago and will now be leaving had the vote for industrial action in March 2009. According to a memo we received yesterday 'they did consider a more up to date vote but as the situation is changed decide not to bother'. In real speak this means they guessed members might vote against the strike so decided not to ask members just in case.
Do you have a problem with unions recruiting new members?A recruitment drive took place in the last few weeks and those who joined at that time are now wondering if the reason was to boost the union membership and so make the strike more successful?
Can you tell union cars from a distance? Is there a possibility that maybe some of these cars are families that took time off work to mind their kids?Well today it's a drive of different sorts. Tail backs entering Newry. PR disaster for the unions.
Are they dying patients running in and out of the gates? Are the services for the patients inside affected?I knew I would be right about the nurses union - they are picketing the hospices again as in 1999. Just on the news now. So dying patients are being targeted again. Shame on them
Yeah, you mentioned H&S the last time, and it seems like a fairly crap reason, which is why I suggested talking to people to change things for the next time. If you do want to change policy, try talking to the people who set the policy (the principal and the board of management), rather than talking to the world on the 'net."Health & Safety" was the given reason....as for being a "Keyboard Warrior" I am attempting to change policy - by making as many people as I can aware of the gross abuse of their taxes.
I'm sure you are aware that few if any dying people are in a position to run anywhere but the services offered to the families of the dying, who are spending as much time as possible with their loved ones in their last days and hours, are most definitely affected.Are they dying patients running in and out of the gates? Are the services for the patients inside affected?
This letter from today's Irish Times gives another side of life as a college lecturer;
Madam, – I am a college lecturer and a public servant. I am 34 years old and I have been teaching for five years. I work full-time hours and am not on a permanent contract. I earn €34,000 per annum, which includes a supplement for a first-class postgraduate degree. I am not secure, but I love my job. I have a nine-month-old son and a self-employed wife, whose business has all but disappeared.
I see Government Ministers’ ludicrous salaries and their sickening expense claims. I see them pretend to take control of our affairs and then be bullied and dictated to by corrupt banks. I see them U-turn, flip-flop and cynically test the waters of public opinion. I see them manipulate facts, talk about “averages” in public service pay and drive a wedge between the workers. I see them pay off crooks and conmen.
I am not striking for more money or for better conditions. I am striking for a cap of about €100,000 on public service salaries, including those of Government Ministers. I am striking for more equitable taxation. I am striking for those who can’t strike and for those who won’t. I am striking for the moral high ground that our Government can see but has chosen not to take. – Yours, etc,
ALAN COSTELLO,
Broadstone, Dublin 7.
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