More teacher strikes are on the cards after National Education Union (NEU) members voted to reject the government’s pay offer.
Education secretary Gillian Keegan had offered a one-off £1,000 payment this academic year and a 4.3 per cent rise for most teachers next year, as well as other pledges on workload.
The NEU had encouraged its members to reject the offer. It announced at its annual conference this morning that an “overwhelming” 98 per cent had voted to reject the deal.
A total of 195,564 members voted on the pay offer – a turnout of 66 per cent. Of those, 191,319 voted to reject the deal.
More teachers voted in the six-day survey than during the NEU’s preliminary ballot for strike action which lasted four weeks.
