British teachers’ union votes to strike
Almost state schools in England and Wales would like close on June 30 following the decision by majority of members of the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers to strike.
The ballot results released on Tuesday said 92 percent of NUT members and 83 percent of ATL members favored a job walk-off.
The two unions are the largest teachers’ unions in the country. The tutors’ industrial action is expected to affect up to 23,000 state schools and other fee-paying schools with NUT and ATL members.
The teachers, however, are not the only ones participating in a massive nationwide strike over changes in Britain’s pension system. Other public sector unions are slated to hold strike votes to support the protest.
Although the June 30 strikes would be the first time that tutors would have struck nationally, teachers had walked off their jobs locally to protest plans by Education Secretary Michael Gove to convert schools into academies. The unions are against the conversion because the move would disrupt collective bargaining over pay and conditions because it would grant schools more autonomy.
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