The National Education Union (NEU), the largest education union in the UK, announced that 98% of its members were in favour of turning the deal down in a recent ballot. The strike action is scheduled to take place on Thursday 27 April and Tuesday 2 May.
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The government’s pay offer was aimed at providing a £1,000 one-off payment this year and a 4.3% rise next year. Additionally, starting salaries would rise to £30,000 from September. This was seen as a reasonable offer by the government, but not by the NEU. Speaking at the NEU conference in Harrogate, Joint General Secretaries Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney said the offer was “unacceptable”, “is not fully funded”, and it did not deal with the shortage of teachers in schools.
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