NIPSA to meet Education Minister on budget cuts
NIPSA to meet Education Minister on budget cuts
10/08/2011
NIPSA is to meet with Education Minister John O'Dowd next week as member's anger grows over cuts to the education budgets across the sector.
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NIPSA TO MEET EDUCATION MINISTER ON BUDGET CUTS
NIPSA, the leading public service union is to meet with Education Minister John O’Dowd next week as members’ anger grows over cuts to the Education budgets across the Education Sector.
Paddy Mackel, Assistant Secretary said:-
“The Union has sought a meeting with the Minister to voice our concern and anger over the cuts imposed in Education budgets. It is clear that not only will there be significant job losses, amounting to hundreds in each of the 5 Education Boards, but also there will be a devastating impact on the delivery of education and support services to young people.
Our members are right to be afraid of being made redundant in such dire economic times. But also importantly the community has every right to be angry that their children will be affected by cuts affecting support in classrooms, welfare support, cuts in transport, professional advice and the staff who provide a range of important back-up support services.
It is perverse that children and young people should be forced to pay for the gambling choices of investors and speculators.
NIPSA intends to impress upon the Minister the fact that our members in Education are not willing to accept hundreds of redundancies and the Education Service for the next generation wrecked”.
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