School’s out?
The ASTI, Ireland’s largest teaching union, has announced that they plan on balloting their members to take industrial action. If strikes go ahead, schools across the country could be facing closure in the coming months.
After meeting last night, the ASTI announced that “members will be balloted on industrial action up to and including strike action over new teachers’ pay. In a separate ballot, over measures applied to ASTI members following their rejection of the Lansdowne Road Agreement, members will be asked to vote on withdrawal from supervision and substitution duties”.
The dispute revolves around the issue of different pay grades for teachers who entered the profession after 2010.
The two ballots are expected to take place in the coming weeks with results due by mid-October.
The ASTI represents 18,000 second-level teachers.
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