Monday start for action over cuts and levy

SECONDARY teachers are to increase pressure on the Government to reverse education cutbacks and the controversial public service pension levy.

On the final day of the ASTI conference in Killarney, the 500 delegates condemned the cuts and the levy and committed the union to a strategy up to and including strike action.

Following a two-and-a-half hour private session, they overwhelming passed a motion that had been reworded by the union’s standing committee, after a procession of speakers on Wednesday felt it was not strong enough.