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Teaching union launches preliminary ballot over pay and strike action

Source: PA Archive

A teaching union is launching a preliminary electronic ballot on strike action over pay and funding.

The National Education (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, will consult 300,000 members working in maintained schools and sixth forms across on whether they are prepared to take part in industrial action to win funding from for pay and additional staffing resources.

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