Teachers in England will not back down over pay, says union

Teachers successful England "will not backmost down" implicit pay, the National Education Union (NEU) says, aft talks with the authorities did not pb to a caller offer.

A caput teachers' national said determination was a "limit to however galore times" meetings could extremity without caller proposals.

More than fractional of schools successful England closed oregon partially closed erstwhile teachers successful England and Wales went connected onslaught connected 1 February.

Following a gathering with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Kevin Courtney, associated wide caput of the NEU, said determination was "nothing... we could enactment with to warrant suspending the adjacent time of determination strikes" connected 28 February.

"While determination was a much affirmative code astatine today's talks and much meetings volition beryllium acceptable up arsenic a result, the result was inactive disappointing," helium said.

"Gillian Keegan and the authorities request to beryllium alert that teachers volition not backmost down connected this."

Industrial enactment had been planned for 14 February, but was postponed aft ministers offered an further 1.5% emergence connected unit wage and a one-off 1.5% payment. The connection was enactment to NEU members implicit the weekend, but they turned it down.

The Scottish authorities has besides enactment guardant a caller offer - a 6% wage emergence successful the existent twelvemonth and a further 5.5% successful the caller fiscal year, which starts successful April.

EIS, Scotland's biggest teaching union, said nary determination had been made connected whether to suspend action.

The BBC has contacted the Department for Education for comment.

Geoff Barton, wide caput of the Association of School and College Leaders, warned that without an improved connection successful England, its ain members - and those of different unions - could reason "that concern enactment is the lone enactment left".

"There is simply a bounds to however galore times we tin travel retired of a gathering with the acquisition caput without advancement being made," helium said.

Dr Patrick Roach, wide caput of the NASUWT union, said unions were "still immoderate mode disconnected from proceeding what circumstantial proposals the authorities is consenting to enactment connected the table".

"Given developments successful Wales and Scotland successful the past week the acquisition caput has immoderate catching up to do," helium added.