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National Education Union threatens campaign against Labour over pay
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede

BRITAIN’S largest education union will campaign against Labour if teachers are not offered a fully-funded above-inflation pay rise, National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede warned as he drew its annual conference to a close today.

He said that Labour MPs will face a “high political price” if the supposedly independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB)’s offer does not address the sector’s recruitment and retention crisis.

The conference this week voted to launch formal ballot if the government’s final teacher pay and funding offer for 2025/26 remains unacceptable, with strikes as early as autumn.

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