Thousands of schools face autumn closure as all four unions pledge simultaneous strike action

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Thousands of schools face autumn closure as all four unions pledge simultaneous strike action
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The teaching unions are increasingly confident their members will vote in favour of a fresh wave of strike action in the autumn term 🔴 If successful, the unions will be handed a legal mandate to launch simultaneous strikes beyond Christmas and into 2024

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said the quartet were “fully united together in fighting for change”.

“School staff will not put up with eroded pay, squeezed school funding and unbearable workload and working conditions any longer,” he added., arguing that school salaries have plummeted by 11 per cent on average over the past decade., the Education Secretary, has insisted she will not return to the negotiating table after teachers voted to rip up her latest offer of a £1,000 one-off payment for this year and a 4.3 per cent pay rise for next year – which was only partially funded.

“Parents and the education profession will be in no doubt that if further industrial action needs to be taken, the blame for this will lie squarely at the Government’s door,” he told teachers at the NAHT conference on Friday.

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