6th November 2024
Update on Pay
INTO, in conjunction with our teacher union colleagues in NITC (Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council) have been seeking to engage with Management side on Teachers’ Pay for 2024. We have been informed that DE does not yet have a budget and is therefore not in a position to make an offer to the teachers’ unions on pay at this time.
The Westminster budget was announced on Wednesday 30 October 2024 detailing money for the Executive. The Stormont executive now need to agree a budget for each department so effective negotiations can begin. The INTO Northern Committee at its most recent meeting in October agreed that, should no acceptable offer be forthcoming, to seek permission to ballot members for industrial action.