Rising costs and pay scales dominate teacher conferences

Delegates at the ASTI 100th Annual Convention at the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

Pay scales, public sector pay agreements, and the rising cost of petrol dominated agendas on the first day of Easter teachers’ union congresses.

The pandemic may have offered some reprieve from many of the teaching unions’ longstanding industrial relation campaigns, as attention diverted to vaccine rollouts and classroom health and safety, but the spiralling cost of living has firmly brought them back into focus.