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NASUWT General Secretary Patrick Roach accused the Government of ensuring 'teaching is no longer a sustainable way to make a living' as union members consulted over potential strikes

Labour is considering banning under-16s from buying energy drinks such as Monster and Rockstar because of worries about the impact on children’s health and education

Unions backed a motion urging 'non-compliance and non cooperation' with the Tory Strikes Act, creating a policy of defiance against the legislation passed in July

Strike ballot deadlines will be spread across several weeks meaning that any industrial action will not take place until after the summer holidays in the new term in September.

Although there is no agreement on ballots and unified strike action across the education sector, all the unions are agreed that the threat of strike action will be suspended at the drop of a hat if the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan agrees to further negotiations.

LONDON (Reuters) - Members of the NASUWT union in England are to be balloted on industrial action after becoming the latest teachers' group to reject a government pay offer, the union said on Saturday. | 08:34am

The result does not reflect “apathy” on the part of educators. It is entirely due to the lack of any confidence by workers in the NASUWT leadership to wage a struggle to overturn the decades-long dismantling of state education—in which the unions have been fully complicit.

A days-long rail walkout that is causing severe travel disruption across the Britain could be just the beginning of a summer of strikes, U.K. workers’ unions...

One of the largest teaching unions rejects the deal as "yet another pay cut" in real terms.