A leading teaching union has warned that further strike action could be on the cards as teachers joined health workers on the picket lines earlier today for the first time in years.
Schools across Northern Ireland reopened at noon on Tuesday to provide free school meals after teachers took to picket lines rather than classrooms for a rare 12-hour strike in an ongoing dispute over pay and the future of the profession.
Thousands of education workers from the four main teaching unions - the NASUWT, INTO, UTU and NEU - took part in a half-day strike over pay - their first walkout in six years.
