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Teachers in England and Wales are set to go on strike over pay next month following a breakdown in talks with the government. The National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, organised a ballot of 300,000 members calling for a “fully funded, above-inflation pay rise” following a decade …

Union leaders were warned that the Government cannot afford inflation-busting pay rises for public sector workers today as the country braces for a wave of brutal Christmas strikes. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he did not have ‘a bottomless pit of taxpayers money’ to hand out to rail workers, nurses …