INTO Decide on Action Plan Against Cuts 22/10/08
INTO Press Release
22 October 2008
The Central Executive Committee of the INTO met today and decided on a range of actions in union's campaign against the attack on primary education in Budget 2009. The INTO has decided on the following:
- Primary teachers and principals, parents and members of boards of management have already begun lobbying local representatives about the savage cuts which will affect pupils in schools throughout the country. This lobbying will be intensified in the coming days to bring home to our elected councillors, TDs and Senators the devastating effects of the proposed cuts on school communities.
- On Wednesday next, 29th October, the Labour Party has tabled a motion on class size in the Dáil which is scheduled to be debated between 7.00-8.30pm. All INTO members and members of school communities are invited to take part in a protest outside the Dáil beginning at 6.30pm on that evening.
- A nationwide series of meetings of INTO staff representatives and principal teachers will take place in districts throughout the country between Monday, 3rd November and Thursday, 6th November.
- A Branch and District Officers' Consultative Conference will be held in Galway on Saturday, 8th November to consider further development of the campaign strategy.
- Regional rallies against the cuts will be organised as follows:
- Saturday, 8th November: Galway
- Saturday, 15th November: Tullamore
- Saturday, 22nd November: Cork
- Saturday, 29th November: Donegal
- Saturday, 6th December: Dublin
Further details of these rallies will be notified when finalised.
Ends.