Published 1 year ago

Striking teachers rally in Broad Street

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National Education Union branch secretary for Oxfordshire Nick Childs said industrial action would affect schools across the county. The NEU is the largest teaching union in the UK with 486,000 members in England and Wales. It has about 2,800 members in Oxfordshire and is striking for a fully funded inflationary pay award.

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BBC News

Billy Bragg performs for striking teachers in Dorset

The activist and folk singer sings There is Power In A Union at a school picket line in Dorchester.

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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The Independent

The irony of teachers strikes? Many won’t really be striking at all

Long gone are the days of my youth when teachers were the butt of pub or dinner party jokes

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Irish Independent

Billy Bragg performs There Is Power In A Union at Dorset school picket line

Billy Bragg was met with applause as he performed on a picket line at a middle school in Dorset, telling striking teachers: “You’re stood here with us and now you’ve stood in solidarity.”

1 year ago·Ireland

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Shropshire Star

Billy Bragg performs There Is Power In A Union at Dorset school picket line

Billy Bragg was met with applause as he performed on a picket line at a middle school in Dorset, telling striking teachers: “You’re stood here with us and now you’ve stood in solidarity.”

1 year ago·Ketley, United Kingdom

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The Mercury

Striking Teachers March Through Central London on ‘Walkout Wednesday’

A large crowd of teachers marched through London’s Oxford Circus on February 1, as thousands of teachers, train and bus drivers, and civil servants carried out strikes on what has been dubbed “Walkout Wednesday”. The National Education Union (NEU) cited “a decade of falling pay…a crisis of recruitment and retention within the school system” as reasons for the strike. One in four teachers leave the profession within two years of qualifying, and a…

1 year ago·Hobart, Australia

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