Nearly all of lecturers in Northern Eire have rejected a 5.5% pay supply for 2024/25 and are set to take motion in need of strike.
BBC Information NI understands that a number of the phrases of the supply on workload and strike motion had proved to be contentious.
Instructing unions had acquired the 5.5% supply from the employers, together with the Division of Training (DE), on Friday.
It was anticipated to have price the Northern Eire Govt about £49m.
However members of a lot of instructing unions have declined to ratify the supply.
BBC Information NI understands that members of the Nationwide Affiliation of Head Academics (NAHT) have been the exception.
The NAHT’s place, which has simply been communicated with members, has been to just accept the pay supply.
The supply from the employers had mentioned that colleges wanted “a protracted interval of stability free from industrial motion and the specter of industrial motion.”
It additionally requested lecturers to just accept that “industrial motion ought to solely be taken as a final resort in any dispute”.
The supply additionally mentioned that lecturers ought to “decide to a interval free from industrial motion within the context of the agreed future pay negotiation timeframes and implementation of the agreed work programme.”
