Executive council to rubber-stamp rejection of deal

THE Central Executive Council of the ASTI will rubber-stamp the rejection of the pay deal at its meeting tomorrow, putting it out to a ballot of members with a recommendation that they vote against the agreement.

Outgoing ASTI general secretary John White confirmed yesterday that the union’s CEC, which has 180 members, will sanction a vote on the issue today.

“We will be rubberstamping it,” he said after an emergency motion calling for “vehement opposition to the Public Service Agreement” was passed unanimously by delegates.