{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67c5d757b48a8f157c1f9076/68a82c73352b565deb7b7609?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Dunshaughlin School Secretary Says \"We Have No Choice but To Protest Next Week\" - 22/08/2025","description":"<p>As schools prepare to reopen this week and next, trade union Fórsa has described as \"deliberate and indefensible\" the exclusion of many school secretaries and caretakers from access to a public service pension and public sector terms of employment.</p><p><br></p><p>The union was commenting ahead of indefinite strike action scheduled to begin next Thursday, by around 2,600 school secretaries and caretakers who are Fórsa members.</p><p>The action is being taken in pursuit of terms of employment, such as pension rights, enjoyed by other public service workers.</p><p><br></p><p>We were joined on The Agenda this morning by Sinn Fein TD for Meath-West, Johnny Guirke, who is calling on Minister for Health and Meath-East TD, Helen McEntee, to urgently intervene to stop the school secretary and caretakers strike.</p><p><br></p><p>We were also joined by Maureen Doherty, who is the school secretary at St. Seachnall's National School in Dunshaughlin, and will be joining the picket line next week. </p><p><br></p><p>Maureen says it is time for school secretaries to stop being treated like \"second-class\" workers. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"lmfm "}