Secondary School union the ASTI has dismissed suggestions strike action by TUI members amounts to election blackmail.

The potential legal action specifically relates to the Government imposing "punitive" financial penalties on teachers after they took industrial action three years ago.

The general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI), Kieran Christie, has described Fempi legislation on industrial action by public service unions as “draconian and repugnant.”

Autism charity, AsIAm, has condemned the Association of Second Level Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) for its advice to members to refuse to provide Individual Education Plans (IEP) for students with special needs.

Secondary teachers belonging to the ASTI union have narrowly voted to reject the government's pay proposals.

One of the country's main teachers unions is meeting in Dublin today to consider new Government proposals aimed at addressing the dispute over two-tier salaries in the public service.

Five teachers who had to return to their schools after long periods running education centres have been allowed to retain the associated allowances of up to €27,000 a year.

The President of the ASTI is reminding Leaving and Junior Certificate students to get plenty of rest between exams.

Teachers could lose €6,000 over two years if they participate in industrial action, including strikes, in support of equal pay for newer entrants to the job.

The loss of hundreds of members to a rival union has forced the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) into a campaign to try and win them back.

Teachers have warned that any attempt to introduce assessment of students by their teachers as part of reform of the Leaving Certificate will be strenuously resisted.

Up to 50 placard bearing delegates greeted the arrival of Education Minister Richard Bruton at the ASTI annual convention in Cork today.

Teachers unions are warning that the school system is facing a serious problem due to a shortage of substitute teachers.

Members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) have today voted to reject the latest public-service pay deal.

The absence of most second-level teachers from training around junior cycle reforms helped Education Minister Richard Bruton to save over €5m on teacher education last year.

The ASTI union has said that pay disparity in the profession has been allowed continue for far too long.

A range of pay increases and access to permanent jobs for some teachers would kick in immediately if the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland decides to suspend a number of industrial actions, the Department of Education has said.

The ASTI has decided to stop its current ballot for industrial action in relation to threatened redundancies.

School sports, exam-related field trips, and other off-site activities could be affected by industrial action planned by teachers at hundreds of second-level schools from September.

A pilot programme for the induction of teachers must be adequately resourced if it is to be brought in nationwide, a union has warned.

Failure to increase pay rates and imposition of new tax rules means Junior and Leaving Certificate exams could be left with no teachers to supervise or correct them, a teachers’ union official has warned.

Secondary teachers have decided not to resume school strikes before the summer in their campaign for equal pay.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is to seek the complete removal of extra lecturing hours imposed as part of the Croke Park Agreement.

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The need to take “heads out of the sand” and stem the flow of members with a clear strategy in disputes on pay and the junior cycle forced a change to the timetable at a teacher union conference.

The leaders of a secondary teachers’ union were urged to engage in efforts to resolve a dispute with their office staff, who are being asked to consider striking to get their employers to the table.

The tiny number of Junior and Leaving Certificate students who are affected by family bereavements or serious illness should be allowed sit an alternative exam later in the summer, a teacher conference has heard.

Latest: The Education Minister has refused to say if he thinks there will ever be Equal Pay for Equal Work.

The Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) is to ballot its members for industrial action over redundancy fears.

Up until now teachers were redeployed, but there are fears that some could now be made redundant instead.

More than 30,000 Junior Certificate students remain in limbo over whether they will lose 10% of marks in English.

The impact of teachers’ rejection of a settlement deal on pay and the junior cycle dispute will not be known for almost another week.

Students whose teachers are in Asti have not done an assessment task worth 10% of Junior Cert English

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has today warned teachers affiliated to the ASTI not to expect any improved offer on pay.

Update 3.30pm: Frances Fitzgerald has echoed Education Minister Richard Bruton's disappointment at the rejection of a pay deal offered to the ASTI.

Update 6pm: Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton has warned that no further offers will be made to ASTI teachers after they rejected the latest round of proposals.