Teachers in the NUT union in London were set to strike on Wednesday of next week as Socialist Worker went to press, along with lecturers in the UCU union.
The UCU lecturers' union has voted to back more co-ordinated strikes beginning with a strike on 28 March. Lecturers in the TPS pension scheme will strike alongside teachers in the NUT union and civil service workers in the PCS union.
The NUT teachers’ union has agreed to push for a coordinated, national public sector strike in March. The union’s national executive committee unanimously backed the plan today, Thursday.
The emergency lobby of the TUC tomorrow over pensions at 2pm is now backed by the London region of the UCU, East London NUT and NUT branches in Camden, Lewisham. Hackney, Lambeth, Ealing, Southwark, Merton and Greenwich.
Teachers in sixth form colleges are preparing to be balloted over pay and cuts in government funding. The NUT union should begin the ballot in the new year.