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TEACHERS whose pay has fallen by 20 per cent since the Tories took power threatened yesterday to call a strike for the second time in a week.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan faces a double dispute after the National Union of Teachers, which has already committed to a ballot over academisation, resolved to take industrial action over a six-year pay freeze.
David Green, a young teacher from Ipswich, said: “The government needs to show it appreciates the resource of most value — teachers — in schools by lifting the pay freeze.”
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
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