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Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland

Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland

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