The country's leading trade union body has blasted the Scottish Government’s energy strategy on moving to a future beyond oil and gas.
23.04.2023 - 12:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Teachers' leaders today issued a last-ditch plea for crunch talks with ministers to avert this week’s strike.
National Education Union joint general secretary Mary Bousted urged the Government to negotiate and end the bitter pay row which has triggered scheduled walkouts from classrooms in England on Thursday and next Tuesday. “We will go in any time,” she told BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show.
“My members do not want to be out on strike but they feel there is no alternative … we don't want to do this.
“I say now, directly to the Government, ‘We’ll go in tomorrow, let’s negotiate so we don’t have to take strike action on Thursday’. None of my members want to disrupt education and lose more pay when they are so inadequately paid already.”
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Strikes could continue until the end of the school year, after NEU members voted for three strike days in late June or early July, reports the Mirror. Teachers in the union voted by 98 per cent earlier this month to dismiss the "unacceptable" wage deal as anger boiled over among school staff at squeezed pay and spiralling workloads.
Some 191,319 members out of the 195,564 who took part in the consultative ballot chose to reject the Government's offer of a £1,000 one-off payment for the current school year and a 4.5 per cent rise for most teachers next year. Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman pointed to the disruption youngsters suffered to their education during coronavirus lockdowns
“Children have missed a great deal over the last few years. It is so important that their education continues and is interrupted as little as it can possibly be,” she said. “I hope that disputes can be resolved rapidly and
The country's leading trade union body has blasted the Scottish Government’s energy strategy on moving to a future beyond oil and gas.
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