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The national executive of the NUT union met yesterday (Thursday). The meeting deferred any decision on national strike action in June until a further executive meeting on 10 May—the day when hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers will strike over pensions.

The NUT teachers’ union will meet next week to discuss further strikes over pensions.

The NUT teachers’ union will meet in two weeks’ time to discuss further strikes over pensions.

Anne Lemon is on the NUT national executive. She spoke to Socialist Worker in a personal capacity

This year’s NUT union conference was watched closely from across the working class movement, as teachers backed more strikes to stop the Tories’ assault on pensions.

Health workers in the Unite union will strike over pensions on 10 May—and teachers in the NUT are set to strike in June.

Teachers at the NUT union’s conference voted to organise another national strike over pensions in June.

Teachers at the NUT union's conference have voted to seek to organise another national strike over pensions in June.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT teachers’ union, last week warned that the whole education system could be privatised by 2015.

"I don’t have vision, just beliefs," education secretary Michael Gove told a recent headteachers’ conference.

Teachers in the NUT at the BSix sixth form college in Hackney, east London, are balloting for strikes in defence of union rep James Drummond, who is facing disciplinary action. An indicative ballot recently saw a resounding vote for strikes over the issue.

This Association / school NUT group notes the 73 percent vote for further national strike action on pensions in the NUT survey. This follows our overwhelming and still valid ballot for strikes to defend our pensions last year.