ASTI: No teacher strikes ahead of summer

Secondary teachers have decided not to resume school strikes before the summer in their campaign for equal pay.

However, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) is to tell members not to do unpaid classroom substitution work after the summer holidays, as it continues a further dispute on the withholding of pay increases being awarded to other teachers.

It will also re-ballot its 18,000 members in the autumn to possibly strengthen its mandate for strikes if the issue of lesser-paid teachers is not addressed satisfactorily.