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Teacher members of the National Education Union (NEU) at a rally in London, as they stage walkouts across England in an ongoing dispute over pay. Picture date: Tuesday May 2, 2023.
TEACHING unions have threatened co-ordinated strikes next month and branded the government’s failure to publish a leaked report recommending a 6.5 per cent pay rise “disrespectful in the extreme.”
In an open letter to the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, the National Education Union (NEU) repeated calls for the School Teachers Review Body (STRB) report to be published and pay negotiations to restart immediately.
The union said that it had yet to receive a response to the calls, which the NEU and fellow teaching unions the ASCL, NAHT and NASUWT first made more than two weeks ago.
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
