Teachers In England And Wales Have Gone On Strike Over Salaries

Industrial action seemed ready to intensify on Monday after Britain’s main teaching union scheduled a series of strike days over salary next month in England and Wales.
The National Education Union said its members unanimously voted to strike in response to calls for above-inflation wage increases.
The declaration came amid a wave of walkouts by public-sector workers demanding that their pay reflect double-digit inflation.
“We feel the government recognises that teacher compensation needs to be corrected,” NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said during a live-streamed discussion with members.
On Wednesday, 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 announced a national strike day on February 1, followed by a series of more regional strikes over six days in February and March.

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It said each school will only be affected for four days.

But it will cause immediate concern among parents, who have seen their children’s education severely disrupted in recent years by the coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland union on Wednesday began 16 days of rolling stoppages until February 6. There have been previous strikes in December and earlier this month.

This week nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were also due to resume strike action on Wednesday and Thursday.

Paramedics and ambulance workers are set to decide this week on further strike action, heaping pressure on the state-run National Health Service as it battles to recover from Covid delays to treatment and a staffing crisis.

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