THE general secretary of ASTI, has warned that school managers can expect industrial action if a £70 million pay, early retirement and promotion package is not implemented.
Mr Charlie Lennon was responding to an advertisement in yesterday's national newspapers from the main secondary school management body, the Secretariat of Secondary Schools, rejecting the Programme for Competitiveness and Work deal.
He said the advertisement was an "offensive load of rubbish". He believed its assertion that pupils would "continue to be supervised on an inadequate, voluntary basis when teachers are absent" was slanderous.
Responding to the advertisement's assertion that "all promotions should be on merit" he expressed his pleasure that the Catholic schools management body had changed its views on this. He said half its schools did not appoint their highest posts on merit, a reference to religious principals. When they did that, the ASTI might look again at its own position on merit.
