Schools across Greater Manchester are set for major disruption as teachers take strike action. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) are taking industrial action as part of a dispute over pay.
The union says it follows real-terms pay cuts over more than a decade, while the pay rise offered to teachers this year is well below inflation. Teachers across England and Wales will be taking part in the strike action, including around 12,500 NEU members in Greater Manchester.
Hundreds of schools will either close their doors fully or partially to certain year groups for the first day of strike action tomorrow (February 1). Talks with the Department for Education to avert the strikes failed to reach a breakthrough yesterday.
