Member Focus - Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland
ASTI Thomas Mac Donagh House, Winetavern St, Dublin 8
Tel : 01 604 01 60
Fax: 01 671 92 80
Email : info@asti.ie
Website : www.asti.ie
Member Profile
The ASTI is Ireland's main second level teachers union and represents 18,000 teachers in community schools, community colleges, comprehensive schools and voluntary secondary schools attended by 80% of all second-level students.
The ASTI acts as a professional association voicing the concerns and interests of the teaching profession at second-level and as a registered trade union, which protects teachers and fights for improvements in their pay and conditions of employment.
Included among our members are class teachers, school principals, deputy-principals, assistant principals, special duties teachers, temporary teachers, part-time teachers, home-school liaison teachers, guidance counsellors, learning support teachers and resource teachers.
The union represents teachers in:
- voluntary secondary schools
- community schools
- comprehensive schools
- community colleges
Established in 1909, the ASTI is a registered trade union affiliated to:
- Education International
- European Trade Union Committee for Education
The objects and aims of the ASTI are:
- to promote second-level education
- to unite and organise all second-level teachers
- to promote and protect teachers' interests
- to maintain and improve teachers' conditions of employment