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Eleanor Busby

Teaching union votes to ballot for action if pay offer not fully funded

Mike Corbett, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) Official for Scotland, Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT, and Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) general secretary Roz Foyer, with teachers on the picket line outside St. Andrew’s RC Secondary School in Glasgow, as they take strike action in a dispute over pay (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

A teaching union will ballot its members for industrial action if the Government offers a pay award that is “not fully funded”.

Delegates at the annual conference of the NASUWT teaching union in Liverpool have voted to “step up” its campaigning to secure a fully funded, real-terms pay award for teachers for 2025/26.

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