Industrial action looked set to intensify on Monday after Britain’s largest teaching union announced a series of strike days over pay next month in England and Wales.
The National Education Union (NEU) said its members voted overwhelmingly to walk out as part of calls for an above-inflation pay rise.
The announcement came as public sector workers hold a wave of walkouts for salaries to take into account double-digit inflation.
“We believe the government knows there needs to be a correction on teacher pay,” NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said in a live-streamed meeting with members
