Nursery World - Teachers back strike for parity

Teachers in Northern Ireland belonging to four main teaching unions have voted overwhelmingly to stage industrial action and go on strike for pay parity with teachers in England and Wales from today (1 January). A ballot of the teachers, who belong to four unions in the Northern Ireland Teachers' Council - the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), the NASUWT, and the Ulster Teachers'

A ballot of the teachers, who belong to four unions in the Northern Ireland Teachers' Council - the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), the NASUWT, and the Ulster Teachers'

Union (UTU) - found firm support for their unions' recommendations for industrial action, with the two biggest, the NASUWT and INTO, also endorsing strike action.

The ballot was held after the Department of Education told the unions it could not afford to backdate a settlement of 1,060 each from September 2002, although it may be able to pay the money from last September - but gave no guarantee of this.

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