The National Education Union has said it is “prepared to recommend a pause” to next week’s strikes to its executive if “substantive progress” is made in further talks this week.
Education secretary Gillian Keegan yesterday wrote to unions to invite them to “formal talks on pay, conditions and reform”, but only on the condition that strikes next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were called-off.
The NEU is one of three unions in a formal dispute with the government over this year’s pay deal, worth 5 per cent for most teachers and leaders. Its members across England walked out for the first time earlier this month.
Multiple meetings between the government and unions have so far resulted in no resolution to the dispute over pay and school funding, as leaders have said Keegan and her officials have not been prepared to formally negotiate.
