As people continue to grapple with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis workers across the UK are ramping up calls for better pay and conditions in the workplace. More strikes could be announced for later this month, with the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) revealing she thinks the group will have met the threshold for strike action in their current ballot. Dr Bousted added that it would be “highly unlikely” that strike action would take place during the exam period. “And even if there was strike action on an exam day actually there would covering for the children to do the exams and all the work has been done prior to that,” she said. “But I think that’s a huge step and I think it’s highly unlikely.”

Source: The Herald January 16, 2023 21:58 UTC