Striking teachers rally in Broad Street

Striking teachers rally in Broad Street

More than 1,000 striking teachers and lecturers and their supporters marched through Oxford today before rallying in Broad Street.

Striking teachers to stage rally in Greenock next week

STRIKING teachers will stage a rally in Greenock next week as their industrial action continues.

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.

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.”

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

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…