28th March 2024
Dear INTO member,
As you will be aware INTO and the other constituent members of the NITC consulted members on the pay offer and NITC is in a position sign off on a final agreement with the employers.
It had been anticipated that this would take place on Tuesday 26 March 2024. The Department of Education has now informed NITC that they have yet to get approval from the Department of Finance and requested that NITC accept their offer with the provision that it would be subject to Department of Finance approval. This is not something that INTO or the other unions are prepared to do.
INTO anticipates that arrangements for a meeting to ratify the teachers’ pay deal for 2021,2022 and 2023 and the associated Workload agreement will take place by 8 April 2024.
INTO instructs members to remain on action short of strike until all aspects of the Pay deal and workload agreement have been formally ratified.
Members will be updated upon ratification of the deal, after which INTO and NITC will engage with Management Side to ensure that the pay uplifts are applied speedily.
Once again the INTO wishes to thank all members for their unstinting resilience throughout the campaign for fair pay.
Mark McTaggart
Northern Secretary
*** UPDATE TO THIS POST *** 28/03/2024 – 3pm
NITC have been notified this afternoon by the Dept. of Education of the approval of the funding for the pay award by the Dept. of Finance.
ASOS continues for all members until formal ratification of the deal which is now expected to happen at a TNC meeting on 9 April.