MORE than 3,000 GMB members working in Northern Ireland’s education system today announced the dates they plan to strike in a dispute over pay and grading. 

Classroom assistants, drivers, bus escorts, catering staff, cleaning staff, administrative, building supervisors and technicians are set to take four days of industrial action on May 20 and 21 and June 3 and 4 2024. 

GMB, along with Nipsa, Unison and Unite, is fighting for a fully funded implementation of the education pay and grading review for the workers.