Teacher union calls off strike for government talks

23 May 14
The National Union of Teachers has called off a strike planned for next month to allow talks to take place with the Department for Education over pay and conditions.

By Richard Johnstone | 23 May 2014

The National Union of Teachers has called off a strike planned for next month to allow talks to take place with the Department for Education over pay and conditions.

The union announced yesterday evening the action planned for June 23 would be postponed after departmental ministers Michael Gove and David Laws had agreed to attend talks. The union is in dispute with the government over a host of the coalition’s reforms, including the introduction of performance-related pay for teachers and the impact of public sector pension reforms.

However, NUT general secretary Christine Blower warned that if there was no progress in the talks, the strike would be rearranged for July 10.

‘In order to assess whether we can make real progress on the matters of most concern to teachers the NUT has decided not to call the strike planned for the week of June 23,’ she sad. ‘This gives the government several more weeks to demonstrate good faith in the talks. The NUT’s national executive will discuss the talks process again when they next meet on June 19.’

 In addition, local government trade unions Unison, GMB and Unite are all balloting members over possible strike action in a dispute with the Local Government Association over pay. The GMB has already announced that if the ballot is successful, it will hold strike action on July 10, which would be likely to include some school employees.

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