School secretaries to begin industrial action this month in dispute over pay and working conditions

Image: Shutterstock/Andrei_R Image: Shutterstock/Andrei_R SCHOOL SECRETARIES WHO are members of trade union Fórsa are to take industrial action later this month in a dispute over pay and working conditions, it was announced today.

The majority are hired through a school’s Board of Management which is funded by an ancillary services grant from the department. “This action will withdraw school secretaries from work on public service systems and databases on the basis that they are not paid or recognised as public servants,” a statement from the union said.

The union’s head of education division, Andy Pike said: “School secretaries have done everything short of industrial action in their campaign for pay equality. However, one secretary wrote at the end of last year: “Unfortunately what is happening is some school principals / board of management have not implemented the 2015 binding arbitration agreement.”

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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