
Four teachers unions said on Friday they could take coordinated strike action in England later this year as they seek to increase pressure on the government in a dispute over pay which has already caused widespread disruption in schools.
"Our members will be standing together to demonstrate the power of the teaching profession and the opposition of teachers to pay restraint and cuts to real-terms pay," Patrick Roach, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers told a joint news conference.