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People at a National Education Union (NEU) rally in London, as they stage walkouts across England in an ongoing dispute over pay, May 2, 2023
AUSTERITY-HIT teachers across England are set to strike once again over pay next month, the National Education Union (NEU) announced over the weekend.
Following five national and three regional walkouts earlier this year, teachers nationwide will down tools on July 5 and 7, with most primaries and secondaries likely to fully or partially close, the union warned.
It urged Tory ministers to reopen negotiations after members of all four of the country’s education unions overwhelmingly rejected a massively below-inflation 4.3 per cent wage deal for the current financial year.
NEU members at Woodfield School in north London are taking sustained industrial action against enforced cuts to learning support assistants’ hours and pay. MARY ADOSSIDES reports
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
