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Teachers on the picket line outside Oakwood School & Assessment Centre in Belfast, February 21, 2023
TEACHERS’ unions in Northern Ireland are balloting their members for strike action because of the lack of “a satisfactory pay offer” for next year.
The NASUWT, INTO and the UTU may well be joined by the National Education Union, which is consulting members over whether they should hold an industrial action ballot.
In a joint statement on Wednesday, the unions said they had told the Stormont Education Minister Paul Girvan that “he needs to make a satisfactory offer on pay” to teachers.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
