The NEU will launch an indicative strike ballot on March 2. The NASUWT joined them, becoming the second education union to announce plans to run a consultative ballot “in the coming weeks”.
According to the Education Support charity’s 2023 index, educator wellbeing has reached its lowest level in five years, with stress, insomnia and burnout all continuing to rise and working in schools described as “unsustainably demanding”.
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), is the democratic organ of international working-class struggle in the 21st century.
In the week from June 5-June 11, hospital admissions among children (0-17) rose 50 percent from 147 the previous week to 220, after falling steadily since April.
Strikers speaking to WSWS reporters explained that their dispute is as much about the quality of education they are able to offer their students as it is about pay.