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NASUWT delegates back pay restoration and 35-hour working week campaign
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TEACHERS backed a campaign for pay restoration and improved conditions at NASUWT’s annual conference today.

Classroom teachers’ starting salaries plunged by 21 per cent in real terms, using RPI inflation, between 2010 and 2023, according to the union.

Moving the motion, senior vice-president Wayne Broom said: “We believe that addressing this crisis of teaching recruitment, retention and morale must be a core priority of any future government.”

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