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Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: There is freedom of association and people have a perfect right not to join a trade union. If the TUI negotiates a deal for its members, it is a collective agreement with that union. In this instance, we would be quite happy to negotiate what we have agreed with the TUI with others, but we are in circumstances in which we have not reached such an agreement and I hope we can reach agreement....

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...layman's terms, essentially the way the system works is that schools are defined in different sectors. In the schools described by the Deputy there are mixed schools in which both the ASTI and the TUI have negotiating rights. The FEMPI legislation provides that the benefits of a collective agreement will apply to those who have signed up to it. In this instance, the ASTI took action to...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (22 Nov 2016)

John Curran: The Minister has not given me a definitive position on how those teachers who are non-union members can go about exercising their rights. There is clearly a pathway for those in the TUI to identify themselves to the Department. The problem is that there is dual recognition of unions in the particular school. The assumption, therefore, is that non-union members are receiving the ASTI...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: People join trade unions to negotiate collective agreements. In this instance, a union, the TUI, entered into negotiations with the Government and reached an agreement. As a result, benefits have followed. Another union chose not to enter into such negotiations and withdrew from various commitments. It does not have the benefit of the collective agreements. Those who have not made a...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (22 Nov 2016)

John Curran: ...as a designated community college on a greenfield site. Since its inception, teachers at the school who have sought to join a trade union have been represented only by the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI. In the school's history there has never been a teacher who has been represented by the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI. This, apparently, is quite common in...