Teachers' union calls for rejection of public service pay agreement

ASTI President Ann Piggott, and ASTI General Secretary Kieran Christie outside the ASTI offices in Dublin 8. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

The largest secondary schools trade union, the ASTI, is to ballot its members on the proposed public service agreement.

Public sector workers are set to receive general pay increases of 2% over the lifetime of the new two-year public service agreement, with the potential of a further 1% under new sectoral bargaining arrangements.