The NASUWT teaching union and National Education Union will both ballot members in schools for strike action over the government’s pay proposals.
NASUWT, which has just over 300,000 teacher members, said its ballot followed ministers’ “failure” to give teachers and heads a “fully-funded real-terms pay award of 12 per cent”.
The NEU, which represents around 450,000 educators, will formally ballot teacher and support staff members. It had given the education secretary Kit Malthouse until today to announce a fully-funded, above-inflation pay rise, but said it had received no answer.
An indicative ballot of 261,522 teachers in the NEU found 86 per cent supported strike action on a 62 per cent turnout. A separate ballot of support staff had a turnout of 68 per cent, and 78 per cent said they would vote to strike.
