any number of strikes in recent weeks. well we ve just learned that teachers in england and wales will also go on strike in a disputes over pay the strikes are planned for february and march. the national education union says the ballots meet the legal thresholds for both turnout and the vote in favour of strike action. the neu is the largest education union in the uk, and balloted about 300,000 teacher and support staff members in england and wales. the question put on the ballot was, are you prepared to take strike action in furtherance of this dispute? . for the ballot of teachers, in england a 90.41i% majority voted yes. and in wales, 92.28% majority voted yes. here s kevin courtney, joint general secretary of the national education union. yellow we have passed the democratic thresholds 92% vote in wales with the turn up of the above the