Schoolchildren are refusing to wear face masks in the classroom, a union official said as the Government's own study does not justify the policy. Just five per cent of pupils at one school agreed to take a lateral flow test at the start of the.
Treasury Minister Alfred Cannan
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The Treasury Minister has accused a teaching union of ’losing all perspective’ over its continuing industrial action.
Alfred Cannan took to Twitter to vent his frustration at the NASUWT.
Members of the island’s largest teaching union have rejected the government’s pay deal, describing the proposed offer as ’derisory and unacceptable’.
Three other unions, the NAHT, NEU and ASCL, have voted in support of the offer.
Mr Cannan tweeted: ’No doubt - the IoM NASUWT has lost all perspective.
’At a time of crisis their call is action short of strike despite a pay offer their fellow union colleagues accepted.’