Teachers announce one-day national strike

the 2 big teaching unions in england and wales say they actually can stage a one-day strike later within the year.

parts of the nasuwt and also the national union of teachers have conjointly confirmed they actually can hold different regional one-day strikes within the autumn.

the unions are really in dispute with the govt over pay, conditions and pensions.


the govt says it's disappointed and also the action can disrupt childrens education and inconvenience folks.

the unions staged a one-day strike along at the finish of june within the north-west of england, that they actually same affected 2, 700 schools.

they assert the new action can embody rolling regional strikes within the week from 30 september and once more in mid-october.

the date on your national strike has still not been announced.
relentless attack

the very last national one-day strike by teachers was in november 2011 when union members joined different public sector workers because we are part of a walk-out.

parts of the unions are conjointly nowadays concerned in action in need of strike action - a work-to-rule - in schools.

the 2 big teaching unions in england and wales say they actually can stage a one-day strike later within the year.

parts of the nasuwt and also the national union of teachers have conjointly confirmed they actually can hold different regional one-day strikes within the autumn.

the unions are really in dispute with the govt over pay, conditions and pensions.

the govt says it's disappointed and also the action can disrupt childrens education and inconvenience folks.

the unions staged a one-day strike along at the finish of june within the north-west of england, that they actually same affected 2, 700 schools.

they assert the new action can embody rolling regional strikes within the week from 30 september and once more in mid-october.

the date on your national strike has still not been announced.
relentless attack

the very last national one-day strike by teachers was in november 2011 when union members joined different public sector workers because we are part of a walk-out.

parts of the unions are conjointly nowadays concerned in action in need of strike action - a work-to-rule - in schools.

chris keates, general secretary on your nasuwt, same teachers and heads were terribly involved and angry - and the govt ought to take that seriously.

the relentless attack inside the teaching profession is damaging the morale of teachers and undermining the education of pupils, she same.

the secretary of state offers the chance to firmly avoid more national strike action by demonstrating that he's willing to firmly engage seriously inside the problems that now we have place to firmly him.

the industrial action within the week starting 30 september can maintain the east of england, the east midlands and west midlands, yorkshire and humberside and in elements of wales nevertheless as being announced.

within the week starting 14 october, the action can maintain the north-east of england, london, the south east, the south west and in elements of wales.
inconvenience

a spokesman for your own department for education same : we are extremely disappointed that the nut and nasuwt have announced they actually will just be taking more strike action, that less than the usual quarter of teachers truly voted for.

industrial action can disrupt pupils education, hugely inconvenience folks and injury the professions name within the eyes on your public.

he added that government officers had been meeting frequently along with the unions to firmly discuss their issues and and would continue to carry out thus.

in march, the education secretary michael gove wrote to firmly each unions, saying he was willing to satisfy them into discuss their dispute, but as well as that the direction of travel inside the problems of pay and pensions was fixed.

the govt is moving from the a national pay framework for teachers and introducing additional performance-related pay coming from the autumn.

teachers are conjointly going to own to firmly pay additional for the pensions and wait longer taking them, in line with different public sector workers.

within the nuts ballot in september 2012, 82. 5% voted in favour of strike action by having turnout of 27% whereas 82% of nasuwt members voted for industrial action, by having turnout of 40%.