PRESS STATEMENT ON 2024 NI BUDGET

UNISON members in their thousands are profoundly disappointed to hear the NI Executive decision on the 2024 NI budget. Their hopes that a longstanding promise to resolve a pay and grading review have been dashed.

We hear very clearly that all parties have said that they support the workers' cause, but they do not have the money. Workers now need to know what they are going to do to get it.

Our members' determination to succeed will become even more evident over the coming days and weeks. There is no doubt that calls to resume picket lines will be heard.

UNISON will now engage in talks at a high level with the Department and the Education Authority to thrash out what happens next.