School secretaries will stage a one-day strike on Wednesday, September 15, due to a “four-decade system of pay inequality”, trade union Fórsa has said. Fórsa says most school secretaries earn just €12,500 a year, with irregular short-term contracts that force them to sign on during the summer holidays and other school breaks. School secretaries have again been let down by their employers and by the Government. “Following Mr Varadkar’s 2020 Dáil statement, school secretaries and caretakers counted the Government among those who backed pay equality in our schools. Fórsa is currently balloting school caretakers as they are also disadvantaged by the pay inequality.

Source: Irish Independent September 01, 2021 09:56 UTC