The Teachers and their Union feel that they are a special case and austerity should apply to everybody else but themselves. Teachers often cite increasing workloads, undisciplined pupils and increasing bureaucracy. Teachers in England are to stage a pair of one-day regional strikes next month, with a national walked planned for later this term, the two biggest teaching unions have announced. Teachers will strike on October 1 in all local authorities in the east of England, East and West midlands, and Yorkshire and Humberside, the NUT and NASUWT unions said. This will be followed up with a further one-day strike across all of England before christmas, the leaders of the two unions, Christine Blower and Chris Keates, announced in a joint press conference. The action will not take place in Wales, as originally planned, after talks between the union and the Welsh government. Neither leader would say what, if any concessions had been agreed by ministers in Wales. But the NUT and NASUWT have held back from announcing a date and are calling for talks rather than "megaphone diplomacy" with the government.
She said the unions first wrote to the Department for Education in March asking for a meeting with Gove over their worries, and secured one in June. It was unproductive, Keates sais: "He made no attempt at that meeting to engage in serious debate. He dismissed the concerns of teachers, Since then, she said, the unions had been unable to meet Gove again, with the education secretary preferring to use speeches to disparge the unions. Teachers begin the academic year with enormous enthusiasm to do the very best they can for every child and young person that comes into their classroom. The dispute in over a series of disagreements connected to pensions, pay and conditions , including plans for performance-related pay. "In a recent poll, 61% of respondents supported linking teachers' pay to performance and 70 % either opposed the strikes or believed that teachers should not be allowed to strike at all."
