The National Parents Council ask parents to supervise Leaving and Junior Certificate exams if members of the ASTI refuse to do so.
Leaving and Junior Certificate oral examinations are just weeks away, but at present there is no guarantee that they will go ahead.
An ongoing pay dispute between the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) and the Department of Education is currently before the Labour Court. A thirty per cent pay rise is being sought by the teachers union, which has threatened to withdraw exam services if an acceptable recommendation from the Labour Court cannot be found.
The National Parents Council Post Primary (NPCCP) have called on parents to offer to supervise the Junior and Leaving Certificates this summer. President of the NPCCP Marie Danaswamy tells RTÉ News, the exams need to go ahead regardless,
And the deal promises to reverse extra working hours that were also introduced during the crisis by setting up an independent body to make recommendations on the issue, and a €150m fund.
Leaders of the public service unions met this morning to announce the aggregate ballot result following individual votes by unions affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. In a statement, the Public Services Committee said that 13 out of 17 unions backed the deal.
“The package, called Building Momentum, was formally ratified at a meeting of ICTU’s Public Services Committee (PSC) this morning,” it said.
“The agreement, which comes into force with immediate effect and runs until December 2022, includes modest pay increases skewed towards those on lower incomes, measures to address important remaining issues from the last financial crisis, and a mechanism for sectoral bargaining drawing on a a ‘sectoral bargaining fund’.
Industry and Employment Correspondent
The proposed public service agreement Building Momentum is now certain to be ratified tomorrow after the largest public service union Fórsa voted to back it by a margin of almost 96%.
The turnout was just over 58%.
Today s vote means that the four largest unions - Fórsa, SIPTU, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Irish National Teachers Organisation - have all backed the two-year agreement.
This means a majority in favour is guaranteed in tomorrow s aggregate vote by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
The ratification will come as a relief to the Government, as it should deliver certainty in pay and industrial relations for the next two years as it combats the consequences of Covid-19 and Brexit.
Proposed new public service pay deal backed by nurses, rejected by doctors New accord very likely to be formally ratified by public service unions next Tuesday
Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 18:16 Updated: Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 18:54
The proposed new public service pay agreement has been decisively supported by nurses but overwhelmingly rejected by doctors.
The vote by nurses to support the proposed agreement on Friday means that it is very likely to be formally ratified by the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) at a meeting next Tuesday.
Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) backed the proposed deal by more than 91 per cent in a ballot.