{"id":652315,"date":"2026-10-12T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/652315\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:52:11","slug":"over-23000-tui-members-commence-industrial-action-today-amid-pay-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/652315\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 23,000 TUI members commence industrial action today amid pay dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OVER 23,000 TEACHERS\u2019 Union of Ireland (TUI) members in the post-primary, further and Higher Education sectors are commencing industrial action today amid the wider<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/public-sector-strike-ireland-2-7186611-Oct2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> public pay dispute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From today, TUI members will not respond to work emails or calls outside their contracted working hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TUI members in second-level schools will also withdraw from Croke Park hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/into-work-to-rule-2-7182668-Oct2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Croke Park hours <\/a>are the additional non-teaching working hours, brought in as part of the Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TUI members will also engage in the all-out strike action planned for this Wednesday, 14 October, and Wednesday, 21 October.<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;Public sector unions have taken industrial action over what they describe as the government\u2019s failure to negotiate a fair pay agreement that reflects the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. (101)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;Over 98% of TUI members voted in favour of a campaign of industrial action.\u00a0 (22)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791798731_592_.png\"  alt=\"Screenshot 2026-10-11 at 15.29.45\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Placards at the Community School in Carrigaline, as part of the one day strike at second level schools and colleges in 2020                    alamy<\/p>\n<p>    alamy\n<\/p>\n<p>TUI president Anthony Quinn\u00a0said that the action \u201cshould be no surprise to anybody\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is months since the last pay agreement expired and workers continue to see their standard of living eroded by constant increases in the cost of essential outgoings such as food, fuel, rent and mortgages. Enough is enough\u201d, Quinn noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TUI general secretary Michael Gillespie said, \u201cwe appeal to government to do the right thing as an employer and to provide the basis for meaningful, formal negotiations as a matter of urgency.\u201d Quinn warned that \u201cfailure to do so will see further industrial unrest across the public service\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/public-sector-strike-talks-union-lawless-7189805-Oct2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RT\u00c9\u2019s The Week in Politics <\/a>on Sunday, Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless said the government was ready to negotiate with unions, pointing to the \u20ac1.2 billion set aside for public sector pay in Budget 2027.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the government is \u201ca good employer\u201d and said the average wage of a public sector worker \u201cis far higher than that of a private sector worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want to be out on the picket on Wednesday,\u201d he said, and urged union leadership to come in and talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVER 23,000 TEACHERS\u2019 Union of Ireland (TUI) members in the post-primary, further and Higher Education sectors are commencing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[835,42,1557,60,43,55549,14828,40,38,41,39,117317],"class_list":["post-652315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-industrial-action","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-public-sector-pay","tag-strikes","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}