{"id":27878,"date":"2023-05-01T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/uk-union-to-ballot\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:13:20","slug":"teaching-unions-consider-coordinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/teaching-unions-consider-coordinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching unions consider coordinated strikes in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Four teachers unions said on Friday they could take coordinated strike action in England later this year as they seek to increase pressure on the government in a dispute over pay which has already caused widespread disruption in schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our members will be standing together to demonstrate the power of the teaching profession and the opposition of teachers to pay restraint and cuts to real-terms pay,&#8221; Patrick Roach, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers told a joint news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Coordinated strikes could close almost all schools in England at the same time, representing an escalation of the dispute with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month teachers overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer and some walked out again on Thursday before another strike on May 2.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday the National Education Union (NEU) said  it would hold a ballot of its members in state-funded schools in England for further strike action in the long-running dispute at a time when other public sector workers are also striking.<\/p>\n<p>The NEU, which represents more than 450,000 teachers, lecturers and support staff across Britain, said the ballot would open on May 15 and close on July 28.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to education minister Gillian Keegan which it made public, the NEU said the action was due to a failure to provide the union with &#8220;a fully funded above-inflation pay rise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s offer comprised a one-off payment this year of 1,000 pounds ($1,256.40) and an average pay rise of 4.5% in the next financial year. Inflation is running at around 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Keegan has said she will wait to receive recommendations from an independent body that reviews teachers&#8217; pay before deciding the next pay award in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers in Wales and Scotland have both accepted pay offers and ended their strike action.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.7959 pound)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by William Schomberg and Farouq Suleiman; Editing by Kylie MacLellan and Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/teaching-unions-consider-coordinated\/teachers-join-the-strike-action-in-luton\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0NT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0NT-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Four teachers unions said on Friday they could take coordinated strike action in England later this year as they seek to increase pressure on the government in a dispute over pay which has already caused widespread disruption in schools. &#8220;Our members will be standing together to demonstrate the power of the teaching profession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-27878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0NT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29530,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions\/29530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}