Teachers' union leader calls for urgent talks with Tories to avert next school strikes
Teachers' leaders today issued a last-ditch plea for crunch talks with ministers to avert this week’s strike.
“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.”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.
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said he was “quite alarmed by the Government's unwillingness to engage in negotiations”. He added: “Get round the table.
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