The ongoing dispute between the government and thousands of striking teachers continues, with staff taking to the picket lines for their sixth strike day.
In Oldham outside Newman RC College, a teacher pointed to the ‘PAY UP’ sign on the A663 and shared the difficult reality of why teachers are continuing to strike. “The education system is in crisis. Schools are grossly underfunded to the extent we can’t afford pens, but the government somehow expects schools to fund the rise of wages through its own budgets,” Andrew Borg-Fenech said.
While the government has offered a one-off payment of £1,000 this year and an average pay rise of 4.5 per cent in 2023 and 2024, many in the profession have hit out at the proposal as the offer was ‘overwhelmingly’ rejected by unions.
