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Teachers in strike deductions victory

by Felicity Collier

TEACHERS won a landmark victory yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled that an employer had deducted too much from workers’ wages following a strike.

Education union NASUWT argued that King Edward VI College in Stourbridge had wrongly calculated deductions from three teachers’ annual pay, after they withdrew their labour for one day in 2011.

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