Staff at NI schools stage protests at funding

Pickets will be placed on schools across Northern Ireland today as thousands of non-teaching staff in the North's education service stage a one-day strike.

More than 5,000 members of Northern Ireland’s largest public service union, NIPSA, together with an estimated 5,000 members of Unison and the T&G, are staging the strike in protest at funding of education which has already forced education boards to make cuts in services.