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15/11/2007
Classroom Assistants Walk Out Again
A rolling campaign of industrial action restarted today as more that 3,000 classroom assistants resumed their strike over pay and conditions.
Nipsa union representatives will take two days of action each week until at least Christmas.
The strike is expected to affect special needs pupils, even though schools have been told to accommodate as many pupils as possible.
Last month, a 10-day strike by classroom assistants shut more than half of special schools.
Subsequent talks with employers at the Labour Relations Agency failed.
Classroom assistants will walk out on Thursday and Friday, and then again on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 November.
Nipsa General Secretary John Corey said: "Not one single Nipsa member has voted to accept the employers' offer.
"Members have also made very clear their determination to resume strike action."
Assistants belonging to the smallest union involved, T and G Unite, will not be going on strike.
Two teachers unions have instructed their members not to tolerate pupils' parents or carers in the classroom.
(BMcC)
Nipsa union representatives will take two days of action each week until at least Christmas.
The strike is expected to affect special needs pupils, even though schools have been told to accommodate as many pupils as possible.
Last month, a 10-day strike by classroom assistants shut more than half of special schools.
Subsequent talks with employers at the Labour Relations Agency failed.
Classroom assistants will walk out on Thursday and Friday, and then again on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 November.
Nipsa General Secretary John Corey said: "Not one single Nipsa member has voted to accept the employers' offer.
"Members have also made very clear their determination to resume strike action."
Assistants belonging to the smallest union involved, T and G Unite, will not be going on strike.
Two teachers unions have instructed their members not to tolerate pupils' parents or carers in the classroom.
(BMcC)
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