Teachers in Wales will be balloted for industrial action if they do not receive a 12% pay award from the Welsh Government. At the Nasuwt Cymru annual conference in Llandudno, an emergency motion calls for a September ballot “if the Welsh Government falls far short of a 12% pay uplift".
The union said after 12 years of pay erosion, teachers are facing the biggest squeeze on their living standards in half a century. The Nasuwt is calling for the award this year to prevent what it warns is an "unprecedented retention crisis".
The motion states: “Whilst the Welsh Government has not sanctioned a pay freeze as in England, pay rises in Wales are still extremely poor and the time has come for teachers to collectively demand the closure of the pay gap that has cut teachers’ pay by 20% over the last 12 years".
