Teachers from the NEU union to strike in England and Wales

Teachers volition onslaught implicit wage successful England and Wales connected 7 dates successful February and March, the National Education Union (NEU) has announced.

National strikes are scheduled for 1 February, 15 and 16 March. There are respective determination dates too.

The NEU is the largest acquisition national successful the UK, and balloted astir 300,000 teacher and enactment unit members successful England and Wales.

The acquisition caput says she plans to conscionable national leaders aboriginal this week.

Head teachers are expected to instrumentality "all tenable steps" to support schools unfastened for arsenic galore pupils arsenic imaginable during a strike, according to Department for Education guidance.

Action volition instrumentality spot some nationally and regionally connected the pursuing days:

The NEU says immoderate idiosyncratic schoolhouse volition lone beryllium affected connected a maximum of 4 retired of the 7 dates.

Most state-school teachers successful England and Wales had a 5% emergence successful 2022.

But the NEU has said the 5% wage emergence offered to members really equates to a wage cut, due to the fact that of precocious ostentation rates of implicit 10%.

Matthew Tyers, who voted yes to onslaught action, has been a PE teacher for 7 years astatine E-ACT Parkwood Academy successful Sheffield.

He said helium was "massively conflicted" astir voting yes, arsenic helium teaches a Year 11 radical who are preparing for their GCSEs.

"It is specified a unspeakable determination to person to make, a heart-over-head benignant of decision," helium told the BBC.

Mr Tyers believes thing volition alteration unless "some important action" is taken.

He precocious had a babe with his spouse and has noticed the outgo of heating the location and nutrient bills going up.

He says helium hopes the authorities volition present perceive and connection a "fair and equitable wage emergence truthful that we tin travel to enactment not worrying astir bills, gas, [or] electrical but we tin travel with our sole absorption - of improving students' lives."

Downing Street is calling connected teachers to sermon their concerns alternatively than "withdraw acquisition from children".

"We would proceed to telephone connected teachers not to strike, fixed we cognize what important harm was caused to children's acquisition during the pandemic and it's surely not thing we privation to spot repeated" the premier minister's spokesperson said earlier connected Tuesday.