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Teachers and Junior Doctors: Side By Side?
NUT leader Blower calls for common front against the Tories’ hated policies
by Luke James and
Lamiat Sabin
TEACHERS should co-ordinate strike action with junior doctors as they take on Tory plans to turn every school into an academy, NUT general secretary Christine Blower said yesterday.
Ms Blower made the bold proposal after members voted at the weekend to hold a strike ballot over the mass academisation plan announced in the Budget.
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