Second teachers’ union vows to strike if pay award fails to fund schools in England

Leader Patrick Roach said he hoped the deal would address the recruitment and retention crisis. Photograph: Simon Boothe/NASUWT/PA

A second teaching union in England has vowed to strike if the government fails to compensate schools in full for next year’s teachers’ pay award.

The NASUWT union’s annual conference voted to reject any pay offer from the government that did not top up school budgets in June’s spending review, and to “move immediately to ballot members for industrial action”.