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Academies are disastrous, but the Tories want more of them.

Teachers in the NEU union are taking part in an indicative ballot for strikes over pay and school funding.

Striking GMB union members were joined by NEU union members who refused to cross their picket line.

Workers and parents at The Village School in Brent, west London, were celebrating after a plan to turn the school into an academy was halted.

GMB union members at The John Roan school in Greenwich, south east London, struck against a plan to turn the school into an academy

Teachers at The John Roan school in Greenwich, south east London, held a silent picket outside the school on Thursday of last week.

Up to 500 teachers, school workers, parents, councillors, children and others marched against education cuts.

The NEU union withdrew planned strikes at The John Roan school in Greenwich, south east London, after the Labour-run council threatened legal action against the union.

UCU union members across six colleges are expected to strike over pay on 28 and 29 November.

Workers at The John Roan school in Greenwich, south east London, struck on Wednesday. The NEU union members are fighting a plan to turn the school into a privately-run academy.

Postal workers at a Royal Mail delivery office in Wigan, Greater Manchester, staged an unofficial strike on Monday in defence of a sacked colleague.

Over 70 people came to a pay rally for NEU union members in London on Thursday of last week.