{"id":13589,"date":"2023-04-03T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2023-04-03T10:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:29:20","slug":"teachers-in-england-reject-pay-offer-announce-further-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/teachers-in-england-reject-pay-offer-announce-further-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers in England reject pay offer, announce further strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Teachers in England have overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer from the British government aimed at ending a series of disruptive strikes, their trade union said on Monday, announcing two further days of walkouts.<\/p>\n
The National Education Union, Britain’s largest education union, said 98% of teachers who voted in the ballot followed\u00a0its advice to reject<\/a>\u00a0the offer of a one-off payment this year of 1,000 pounds and an average pay rise of 4.5% in the next financial year.<\/p>\n “This resounding rejection of the government’s offer should leave (education minister) Gillian Keegan in no doubt that she will need to come back to the negotiating table with a much better proposal,” NEU joint General Secretaries Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney said in a statement.<\/p>\n “The offer shows an astounding lack of judgement and understanding of the desperate situation in the education system.”<\/p>\n Tens of thousands of teachers across Britain have taken strike action this year in demand of an above-inflation pay award, leaving classrooms empty and heaping pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to help resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n The union said teachers would take two further days of strike action, on April 27 and May 2.<\/p>\n The government has argued that higher pay rises would only worsen inflation.<\/p>\n Teachers in Wales have ended their strike action after\u00a0voting to accept<\/a>\u00a0a pay offer comprising an additional 3% pay award for 2022\/23 alongside a 1.5% one-off payment, and a government-funded 5% rise for the following year.<\/p>\n Scotland’s largest teaching union has also accepted a pay deal to end long-running strikes, which it said would amount to a 14.6% increase in pay for most teachers by January 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teachers in England have overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer from the British government aimed at ending a series of disruptive strikes, their trade union said on Monday, announcing two further days of walkouts. The National […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,3,2],"tags":[940,993,40],"coauthors":[25],"class_list":{"0":"post-13589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"category-features","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-top-news","11":"tag-strike","12":"tag-teachers","13":"tag-uk"},"yoast_head":"\n