Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Teachers: first national strike over twenty years. posted by Richard Seymour
The teachers voted to join the revolt against Gordon Brown's public sector pay cuts and ballot for strike action at their conference last week. Today, the results of the ballot have come out, and they've voted overwhelmingly for a national strike on April 24th. The UCU union is also balloting members for industrial action on the same day, and it is expected that hundreds of thousands of PCS members in the Department of Work and Pensions will also be out on strike.Labels: gordon brown, neoliberalism, public sector pay, teachers strike, trade unions