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Headteachers back first strike in 114 years
Members of the National Association of Head Teachers have voted by more than two to one to back strike action over changes to their pensions.
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Headteachers to hold first strike ballot
The union representing thousands of headteachers and their deputies is to hold its first ballot on whether to strike in November over a dispute over reductions to their pensions.
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Teachers’ unions vote for strike action
Teachers vote to strike over pension proposals, adding to the spate of union action threatening to halt public services in the coming months. Cathy Newman reports on the looming summer of discontent.
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Teachers strike over ‘poor management’
Teachers at a school in Darwen in Lancashire say it is not the behaviour of children but the behaviour of management that has led to strike action, as Jane Dodge discovers.
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Northern Ireland’s biggest strike in a generation brings public services to standstill
What has been described as Northern Ireland’s biggest ever strike has been taking place today, bringing public services to a standstill.
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Teachers ‘leaving in droves’: data reveals school staffing problem
During a strike there is inevitably much talk about pay, but we look at the data behind the ongoing dispute between the government and the teaching profession.
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UK economy flatlined in March as strikes impact growth
The wave of public sector strikes is also hitting the UK economy, which flatlined last month.
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UK strikes: half a million workers demand ‘fair pay’
Up to half a million striking workers made today the biggest mass action in the UK since 2011.
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UK braces for Wednesday’s widespread strike action
In a season of strikes, tomorrow stands out.
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Sturgeon vows to fight government’s Strikes Bill ‘every step of the way’ in Scotland
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon denounced the government’s minimum service bill – which will apply across the whole of the UK – as a move to ‘take away workers rights’, vowing to fight it ‘all the way’.
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Strikes continue to spread across UK
A wave of industrial action continues to spread across the UK – as Royal Mail workers, University lecturers and teachers in Scotland walk out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions.
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‘Everything is in favour of the rich’ – growing list of public sector workers ready to strike over pay
The list of professions planning industrial action is growing every day.
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University staff strike over pensions
University lecturers are manning the picket lines as they begin their most severe strike to date over changes to their pensions. Unions say the downgrade will leave the average lecturer £10,000 a year worse off in retirement. Around a million students will be affected by the walkout – but polls show a majority support their…
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Paris teacher invented story about classroom stabbing
A French nursery teacher who claimed to have been stabbed by a man who said he was acting for Islamic State made up the story, according to the Paris prosecutor.
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Trade Union Bill: how new laws will impact strikes
The government has published its Trade Union Bill today outlining the new laws on strike ballots and political donations.