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FIVE years of pay restraint has forced teachers to live “two to a room,” delegates at NUT conference said yesterday.
A motion unanimously passed by the conference noted that teachers have suffered a 16 per cent real-terms pay cut and called for the restoration of mandatory wage scales and national bargaining.
But an amendment vowing to support grassroots housing campaigns saw delegates recount horror stories of being driven to live in destitution by the housing crisis and soaring living costs.
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
