The NAHT school leaders’ union will re-ballot its members for strikes over pay, school funding, workload and wellbeing.
Leaders of all four teaching and leadership unions will today hold a joint press conference at NAHT’s conference in Telford to announce plans to “announce co-ordination of their unions’ industrial action going forward”.
Unlike the heads’ union’s previous ballot, which did not meet the legal turnout threshold required, the new vote will seek a mandate for full strikes alone. In the last ballot, heads were asked if they backed strikes and action short of a strike.
In an eve-of-conference interview with Schools Week, general secretary Paul Whiteman said government’s continued refusal to hold fresh pay talks shows “contempt” for the profession and reveals that ministers fear unions.
