Teachers' Pay Dispute

Sir, - Your edition of March 23rd reported that the Trinity College Postgraduate Student Union said that its membership were …

Sir, - Your edition of March 23rd reported that the Trinity College Postgraduate Student Union said that its membership were prepared to mark exam papers this summer. It should be noted that the Graduate Student Union did not canvass the opinion of its membership and did not communicate its decision to its membership.

We are horrified that any organisation purporting to be a representative body should take such a decision without consultation and that any organisation calling itself a union should offer to break a strike. We are not prepared to mark exam papers this summer. - Yours, etc.,

Aileen O'Carroll, Ewen Speed, Michael Doherty, Ronan Murphy, (Postgraduate Students, TCD), Clarence Mangan Road, Dublin 8.