Teachers threaten escalation of strike action if next govt fails to address 'pay discrimination'

Many of the teachers and lecturers who took part in strikes today are not directly affected by what they deem "pay discrimination" but see the impact it is having on colleagues, and on the education sector.

That was the view of those on the picket lines at Education and Training Board, community, comprehensive and voluntary schools, institutes of technology and colleges of further education as 19,000 members of the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) took industrial action.