Work colleagues come out to support staff who are on strike in Tipperary schools

Bunscoil Na Cathrach Principal Brendan Horan & staff supporting School Secretaries Aileen Smith and Michelle O'Brien with teachers Bridget Lambert and Fiona Fitzgerald

placeholder image — Bunscoil Na Cathrach Principal Brendan Horan & staff supporting School Secretaries Aileen Smith and Michelle O'Brien with teachers Bridget Lambert and Fiona Fitzgerald

Secretaries and caretakers in a battle to end pension discrimination

Up to 100 school secretaries and caretakers are on indefinite strike throughout Tipperary.

School staff from Tipperary schools attended a Forsa trade union rally in Dublin last Thursday and in Cork on Friday and from Monday placed pickets on over 70 schools in the county.

One of the schools affected on Monday was the Bunscoil Na Cathrach, where Principal Brendan Horan and teachers Bridget Lambert and Fiona Fitzgerald came out to support school secretaries Aileen Smith and Michelle O'Brien.

The strike is taking place in protest at their exclusion from public service pensions and basic entitlements.