TEACHERS have voted in favour of possible industrial action if the Tory government continues its “unacceptable pay policies”.

Delegates at the NASUWT conference over the Easter weekend unanimously passed a motion calling on the union’s executive to “consider the use of rolling strike action” unless “substantial, above-inflation and across the board pay increases” are agreed.

Steve Thompson, a teacher from Leeds who introduced the motion, said: “It is clear to all why there is a recruitment and retention crisis in the profession.