Teachers' ballot over pay strike

THE largest education union in the country will launch a formal ballot on strike action if the Government's final pay offer for teachers “remains unacceptable’.

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Delegates at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) have voted for districts, branches and school groups to “immediately prepare” for a formal industrial action ballot over the pay and funding offer for 2025/26.

A motion, passed at the union’s conference in Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, said the Government's recommended 2.8% pay rise for September was “inadequate and unfunded’, and it would prevent the Government achieving its target of recruiting 6,500 more teachers.