Britian’s largest teaching union on Monday announced its intention to embark on a industrial strike over pay next month in England and Wales
The National Education Union said that its members voted overwhelmingly to strike as part of demands for a wage increase above inflation.
The declaration was made as a wave of walkouts by public sector employees demanded that their compensation reflect double-digit inflation.
“We believe the government knows there needs to be a correction on teacher pay,” NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said in a live-streamed meeting with members
On Wednesday, the union leaders will meet with the education minister.
“They know that we mean business. They know that you are prepared to take action to protect your jobs, to protect your pay and costs and to protect your ability to remain in the profession,” added fellow joint general secretary Mary Bousted.
The union declared that there will be a national strike day on February 1, followed by six days of regional strikes in February and March.
It was stated that each school will be affected for only four days.
