Members of the country’s largest public sector union Fórsa and members of the largest teachers’ union – the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) – have voted to accept the latest public sector pay deal.
In a ballot of Fórsa members, 94% of those who voted accepted the agreement; while 82% of INTO voters supported the deal.
Other public sector unions and staff associations are in the process of balloting their members on the pay deal.
They will bring their ballot results to a meeting of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Public Services Committee on Monday 25 March.
Agreement was reached with the Government at the Workplace Relations Commission in January on a deal that will provide for pay increases of 10.25% over a two-and-a-half year period.
The proposals are worth up to 17.3% for lower paid workers.
The previous public service pay agreement, Building Momentum, expired on 31 December 2023 and the proposed new deal will run from January 2024 to June 2026.
If the agreement is ratified, the first of a series of pay increases will come in the form a 2.25% increase backdated to 1 January.
The pay deal will cost around €3.6 billion and includes a local bargaining mechanism to allow individual grades, groups and categories of public servants to raise specific issues.
