News & Star: Strike vote
NEARLY 3,000 teachers in Cumbria are to be asked if they would support a to strike.
It could lead to the first walk-out by teachers in more than 20 years.
The National Union of Teachers’ national executive agreed on Thursday that it would ballot its members in England and Wales on a one-day strike over pay.
The government has offered a rise of 2.45 per cent this year and 2.3 per cent in each of the following two years.
The union says the figure is below inflation as measured by the Retail Price Index which is at four per cent.
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