Local FORSA school secretary welcome new pay and conditions
A North West school secretary and Forsa member says changes to their pay and conditions is a welcome development and a starting point in helping create a workplace environment whey they feel valued for their contribution to school life. The Department of Education is to back pay some 3…
Local FORSA member gives cautious welcome to new school secretary deal
A local FORSA representative has given a cautious welcome the new agreement that will see all school secretaries transfer to a new pay-scale aligned with the public service clerical officer scale. The trade union which represented the school sectaries, FORSA negotiated the deal. It’s thought the new deal…
School’s out on September 15th for Forsa Secretaries
Although the new school year is still only in its first week – it’s already been confirmed that there will be disruption for students and teachers later this month. School secretaries are to stage a one-day strike on September 15th. Forsa, which represents the workers say they’ve been…
School secretaries need ‘significant progress’ at WRC talks
A north west Forsa union member says talks that are to take place at the Workplace Relations Commission in an effort to end a school secretaries dispute will have to yield real and significant progress. It’s after an ongoing work to rule by school secretaries has been suspended from this…
Forsa: Many school secretaries, caretakers on minimum wage
A north west member of the public service union Forsa says there are school secretaries and caretakers in the region who have been on the minimum wage for years. Frank Considine, a secretary in St Clare’s National School in Manorhamilton, was speaking as up to 1,000 school secretaries throughout the…
FORSA members to engage in public action
There will be further disruption to school services across the north west later this week with confirmation that the Forsa school secretaries Union members are will engage in industrial action on Friday. The long running dispute which involves the so called two tier system that exits for school secretaries…
further disruptions for local schools in January
School secretaries represented by the Fórsa trade union are to recommence industrial action following recent discussions at the Workplace Relations Commission . The union’s School Secretary branch executive has approved a proposal to hold a national one day strike on Friday 10th January 2020. This action will be followed by…