NI strikes: Teaching staff and healthcare workers on picket lines

Thousands of workers in the education and health sectors in Northern Ireland are due to strike on Tuesday.

Teachers, nurses, ambulance and hospital staff will be on strike. Most schools across Northern Ireland are expected to close until midday. The NASUWT is calling for a 12% increase in salaries, following deadlock over a pay deal for the past year."Our members are not prepared to stand by while their pay packets shrink and their living costs rise," he said.

The Department of Education said there had been active engagement between managers and teachers about pay.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

This is how Civil And Public Servants have been working their whole life... it will never change

How many of those standing there voted DUP /Tories ?

Health workers deserve a fair pay deal . Teachers not so much , they got full pay during the pandemic for doing nothing , They should have been made to help out in hospitals .

It's all political

Sure the kids missed months of proper education over the last few years so the thought of a day here and there is hardly going to rattle anyone. And from what I have heard it appears they were still pretty much on strike when the kids went back in this afternoon.

Could you correct this story which states that teachers were offered 3.2% in Feb 2022? This is simply NOT true. The proposal was to slightly amend the pay scale to offer new teachers more- no actual serving teacher was offered a 3.2% increase.

Wonder why the teachers didn't do it last week when the kids were off But sure let's effect the kids'lives that will show the government

Unless it is about a flag or a rock no one will listen

Pay parity and each worker here are getting taken for complete mugs. It's clear that not only RishiSunak has no care but the NIgovernment as well. The strikes will only get worse. Working conditions/ staffing levels are low and we know how that hinders patient safety. Sort it..

Yeah for healthcare workers in NI (not sure of teachers predicament) and comparing their current salary (which is 21/22 wages still) to the 23/24 Scottish pay offer, I think it's pretty clear why everyone is walking out. When the differences are around 7.5k, there is no

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