Call for ‘serious talks’ to end schools disruption

TEACHER unions should get down to serious talks on the Croke Park deal and end disruption in schools, a second-level principals’ leader has said.

As the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) continues its negotiations with the Department of Education, their counterparts in the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) remain on industrial action in more than 250 schools and have not engaged in talks on the reforms in the public service pay programme.

National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals president Tim Geraghty said the difference of approach by the two unions is unfortunate and will lead to tensions between staff in around 80 schools where both ASTI and TUI members work.