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School strikes: NI teaching unions postpone industrial action

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Union leaders had been making plans for three more days of strike action before Easter.

Northern Ireland's five teaching unions have agreed to postpone any further strike action after meeting the education minister.

In November, teaching unions announced five days of strike action as part of a long-running dispute over pay.After meeting the unions, Education Minister Paul Givan said negotiations over pay will hopefully begin next Tuesday.t BBC NI's Evening Extra programme"Devolution has been restored, we have an education minister, and we have pay negations which will be commencing soon."

"Three hundred and fifty thousand children no longer able to go to school has a huge impact on those parents that then need to take time off work, provide alternative care arrangements, and that now won't be happening," he said

 

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