Teaching unions to vote on pay deal

Two teaching unions whose leaderships rejected the Haddington Road Agreement without putting it to a vote are to give their members the chance to ballot on its contents in September.

The Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland remain the only large public service unions opposed to the deal.

They had balloted their members on the agreement’s predecessor Croke Park II and there had been an overwhelming rejection. When Haddington Road was then formulated the two unions’ executives decided not enough had changed to warrant a re-ballot.