ASTI members have voted to ban co-operation with the introduction of new programmes, syllabuses and curricula in second level schools as part of their campaign for a salary increase.
According to a statement issued by the uniontoday, 80 per cent of those who participated in the ballot voted in favour of withdrawal of co-operation with the implementation of new programmes, syllabuses and curricula due to be introduced from the 2002/2003 school year.
As a result of the ballot, the ASTI will issue a directive to its members in January. Members of ASTI will also for the first time get an opportunity to vote on the Government's £27-per-hour offer on supervision and substitution in a ballot in early January.
Today’s ASTI statement said the immediate effect of the directive will be to ban co-operation with the new Leaving Certificate in Biology and the new Leaving Certificate in Home Economics due to be introduced in schools in September 2002, the participation by a new tranche of schools in the new syllabus in Junior Certificate Religious Education and the participation by up to a third of schools in the new syllabus.
