Union to debate launching formal ballot for strike action over teachers’ pay

Daniel Kebede, of the National Education Union, said the Government must listen to teachers (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

Teachers will debate whether the country’s largest education union should launch a formal ballot on strike action over pay and funding.

Delegates at the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference in Harrogate in North Yorkshire are due to vote on whether union districts and branches should “immediately prepare” for a formal industrial action ballot.