Teachers to launch more strikes after rejecting government's ‘ridiculous and insulting’ take-home pay cut
Joint NEU general secretaries Kevin Courtney and Dr Mary Bousted
[Ben Broomfield / National Education Union]
NATIONAL schools strikes across England are set to continue after nearly 200,000 teachers voted to reject the Tory government’s latest “ridiculous and insulting” take-home pay cut, the National Education Union (NEU) announced today.
The wage ballot result – announced to a raucous meeting of union members on the opening day of the NEU’s 2023 conference in Harrogate — shows educators are “united in their rage” about the austerity-hit sector’s desperate situation, the union stressed.
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