NI teachers reject backdated pay rise of 5.5%

The bulk of teachers successful Northern Ireland person rejected a 5.5% wage connection for 2024/25 and are acceptable to instrumentality enactment abbreviated of strike.

BBC News NI understands that immoderate of the presumption of the connection connected workload and onslaught enactment had proved to beryllium contentious.

Teaching unions had received the 5.5% connection from the employers, including the Department of Education (DE), on Friday.

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