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Strike ballot opens over ‘excessive’ workloads at Britain's second-largest academy chain
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally outside the Department for Education (DfE) in London as strike action is taken by sixth form college teachers members across 32 colleges in England, November 28, 2024

A STRIKE ballot over “excessive and unhealthy” levels of workload at Britain’s second-largest academy chain was opened yesterday.

More than 700 National Education Union (NEU) members will vote whether to take “sustained and discontinuous strike action” at 18 Harris Federation secondaries and sixth-form colleges until February 28.

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