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Teachers at Highgate Wood school in Crouch End struck on Thursday of last week against plans to force them to work extra hours.

More than 50 strikers picketed Bowland Community High School in Lancashire on Friday of last week as they took action against it becoming an academy.

Teachers in Scotland got a glimpse of the changes their employers would like to force on them this week when a document from the councils’ umbrella organisation Cosla was leaked.

Conversations are happening across Tower Hamlets to organise 30 June strikes. "I’ll phone these two schools and visit this one."

Debs Gwynn is the NUT equalities officer for St Helen’s district. She told Socialist Worker that the ballot has galvanised teachers.

The UCU union goes into its Congress this weekend in the midst of several national disputes and on the back of a national strike on 24 March.

Teachers at City secondary school in Sheffield, south Yorkshire, are to ballot for strikes against a compulsory redundancy.

Two Coventry schools struck against academies on Friday of last week. Some 70 teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions were involved in the strike at Tile Hill Wood School – a huge majority – with a further 30 NUT members striking at Woodlands School.

Strikes save jobs. That’s the message from teachers at Rawmarsh Community School in Rotherham, south Yorkshire.

The NUT plans to ballot members at Forest Hill school in Lewisham, south London, over a planned compulsory redundancy.

Teachers in four schools struck against academies last week.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt explicitly told a meeting of branch officers on Friday of last week that our union will join coordinated strikes in June to defend our pensions.