Teachers to enter talks as industrial action looms

Talks will take place tomorrow aimed at averting hundreds of second-level schools closing for most of November due to industrial action by teachers.

Department of Education officials are due to meet today with representatives of school boards to consider what options they have to cover substitution and supervision work which 18,000 members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) will stop doing from Monday, November 7.

The union yesterday agreed to accept the invitation to talks with Education Minister Richard Bruton’s officials.