Full pay restoration top of agenda as teachers unions open conferences

The restoration of pay for all teachers, and not just those who qualified in recent years, is high on the agenda for three unions, meeting this week.

While some progress has been made for members of two teacher unions who have started on lower pay since 2011, those recently qualified teachers’ growing proportion of the profession means the Government will remain under pressure to put them back on full pay parity.

However, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) has foregone those partial restorations as it maintains an industrial action campaign in which strikes on the specific issue are currently suspended.