Our featured image this morning is from staff at St Fergal’s BNS in Finglas showing solidarity to school secretaries and caretakers in their campaign.
The national strike by school secretaries and caretakers which was due to take place today was deferred after the education department made significant concessions, agreeing that all school secretaries should be placed on the public service clerical officer scale, bringing an end a four-decade old two-tier pay system. This was reported in the Times, RTÉ, Journal, Examiner and Indo. Andy Pike also spoke on RTE’s Drivetime about the strike deferral and you can listen back to it here.