Strike action risk during NI school exams over 'Stormont budget failure'

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“By leaving workers no alternative, there’s a mounting risk that the NI Executive will engineer industrial action at the height of the schools’ exam period.”

School pupils in Northern Ireland could face disruption during the upcoming exam period due to strike action.

In her first draft budget, Ms Archibald allocated around £14.5billion in resource spending and £2.1billion for capital projects in Northern Ireland Education has received almost a fifth of the resource funding, receiving £2.87billion, an increase of 11.5% from the previous financial year. He ended by calling on the unions to work with his department on the issue and offered a meeting with his deputy secretary to “discuss the way forward”.

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