ASTI strike

While not making any comment on today's ASTI strike it is worth noting that the Germans pay their teachers different rates for similar work.

Teachers, along with all public servants, earn more money in the west than in the east, the former German Democratic Republic.

When it comes to discrimination, the ASTI should remember that it has discriminated as to who can join join its union.

And never a word of apology.

When I began teaching the ASTI refused me membership. As a priest, they considered me management.

Then and now I have never been part of management, something to wear as a badge of honour.