In addition to the 5% pay award. for next year, from september, the offer is 4.3% for most teachers, along with the introduction of a £30,000 starting salary. but that was turned down by the national education union as insulting , and walk outs are now planned on the of 27th april and on the 2nd of may. 0ur education editor branwen jeffreys reports from harrogate, where the neu s annual conference is taking place. teachers arrived at conference today after four days of strikes, six days of pay talks. they waited to hear the latest on their dispute. the number of members that rejected the government s pay offer is 191,319. cheering and applause the strength of feeling here is clear. the vote to reject was overwhelming. the profession itself is furious. we re very, very angry at the offer, its an insult to us.
But of course, it doesn t have the scale. people are probably too addicted to the volume of retweets and likes and engagement that they do get on twitter, much as it might be toxic. so it s tricky. members of england s largest teaching union are to strike for another two days, after voting by an overwhelming majority to reject the latest pay offer from the government. the education secretary called it extremely disappointing and said it will result in more disruption for children. 0ur education editor, branwenjeffreys reports from harrogate, where the neu s annual conference is taking place. teachers arrived at conference today after four days of strikes, six days of pay talks, and waited to hear the latest on their dispute. the number of our members that rejected the government s pay offer is 191,319. the union leaders called for more negotiations. we want to say to parents that we don t want to take strike