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Northern Ireland teachers have been given a backdated pay rise of 5.5% from 1 September 2024. This offer is expected to cost the Northern Ireland Executive approximately £49m in 2024/25. The unions will put the offer to their members, although they are expected to recommend that the members accept the deal. It is coupled with a new arrangement on teaching staff workload. The teaching employers who include the Department of Education, Education Authority, and the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools state that the deal provides a significant fair pay raise, despite the unprecedented financial challenges faced by the education sector in Northern Ireland.
The education minister stated that talks about a pay settlement for teachers would be finalized in a few days. Paul Givan added that his department was close to concluding a resolution concerning the present financial year and stated that negotiations with unions are ongoing. One of Northern Ireland’s most prominent teaching unions, the NASUWT, said that talks were ongoing, while INTO, the UTU and the NEU failed to supply a statement.
Four Northern Ireland teacher unions representing thousands of teachers voted in favor of a strike over pay in December 2024. However, the strikes have since been canceled after the teaching employers made a new deal of a 5.5% pay rise to be backdated to 1 September 2024. Although the protestors refused the pay raise, the offer was sent to the teaching unions to put to their members.
The offer’s teaching workload arrangements also includes a clause requiring unions to commit to only undertaking industrial action when all else fails. Northern Ireland educators accepted an earlier pay deal in March 2024, although it was backdated and only covers the years from 2021 to 2024
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