Delegates urged to put past industrial unrest behind them

TEACHERS must move forward together to achieve their objectives and put industrial unrest of the past behind them, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland president PJ Sheehy said last night.

The recent acceptance by the union of the national pay deal, benchmarking and the Government’s substitution and supervision offer effectively ended their three-year pay dispute.

Mr Sheehy told the ASTI annual convention in Limerick that a line has been drawn under the most recent chapter of the pay claim saga. “What began life as a simple straightforward pay claim resulted in much antipathy, antagonism and acrimony,” he said.