Teachers’ strike

Two teaching unions have announced staged strike action this summer in response to the government’s “relentless attacks” on the profession.

The NUT and NASUWT unions are going ahead with the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign. This follows the refusal of education secretary Michael Gove to genuinely engage with them.

The dispute over pay, pensions and workload means there will be a continuation of the current action short of strike action. There will be national rallies across England and Wales in April and May followed by a rolling programme of strikes.

This will start with local authority areas in the North West of England on 27 June.

Unless Gove responds positively to the unions’ demands, the NASUWT and NUT have said action will culminate in a one-day all-out national strike before the end of the autumn term.