WALES TUC delegates voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the Silk Commission proposal to devolve teachers’ pay and conditions to the Welsh government.

Mover Philip Dixon of ATL Cymru said that he had always supported devolution “but one thing we have never sought or welcomed is devolution of pay or conditions.”

He noted the funding gap of £600 per teacher in Wales compared with England and suggested that devolution would result in lower pay in Wales.