Madam, - Seán Flynn states (September 26th) "since former President Ms Bernadine O'Sullivan took the union out of the ICTU and made a claim for a 30 per cent pay increase in 2000".
I did not take the ASTI out of the ICTU. It was done by a democratic decision of the Central Executive Council and I as president was bound by that decision as were all officers and officials of the ASTI. This decision remains until a contrary motion is proposed and adopted which has not happened up to the present time, irrespective of how educational editors or others may feel about the matter.
The claim for 30 per cent was proposed by two members of the Central Executive Council, one a former president, who increased the demand from the original claim of 20 per cent, which I had been on the record as endorsing.
Like the decision taken in regard to the ICTU this then became association policy and I was duty bound to seek its full implementation. -Yours etc.,
BERNADINE O'SULLIVAN, Fortfield Road, Dublin 6