Teachers back one-day strike action in music school row

TEACHING staff at the Waterford Institute of Technology have voted in favour of a one-day strike in the ongoing dispute over management plans to downgrade its music school.

The vote for strike action was carried by a majority of 88% following a ballot of the 400 staff in all faculties of the four-campus college.

However, while the branch waits on approval for strike action from the TUI’s executive council, local secretary Colm Long has expressed hope that the matter could be resolved without recourse to industrial action.