11.00am Market Square, Nottingham

About 300 - 400 members of the National Union of Teachers marched from the Forest Ground to Market Square for a rally to listen to speeches. 

NUT and NASUWT Regional Strike Action - press release

Today’s successful regional strike action taking place in Eastern, Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside Government regions is a result of the Coalition Government’s failure to enter into meaningful talks to resolve the dispute over pay, pensions, job cuts and workload. 

Teachers are deeply concerned about the impact these imposed changes are having on the morale of the teaching profession, the recruitment and retention of teachers and on the provision of quality education for pupils. The next regional strike day will be the 17 October in the North East, Cumbria, London, South East and South West Government regions. The NUT and the NASUWT are still asking the Government to enter into genuine talks to resolve this dispute.

Commenting on today’s speech by the Education Secretary at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said:

“We agree that education is vitally important for children to achieve their full potential and we need to get it right. Unfortunately, we do not believe that the Coalition Government’s policy will achieve this and we are not alone. A YouGov poll for the NUT in 2013 showed that only 8% of parents think this Government has made a positive impact on the education system and today, the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, led 200 academics including children’s laureate, Malorie Blackman, in calling for Michael Gove’s education reforms to be suspended.

http://nottinghamcitynut.org/

http://nottinghamcitynut.org/parent%20leaflet.pdf

http://www.teachers.org.uk/

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/teachers-there-is-no-other-option-but-to-strike/

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ALAN LODGE 

Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham.  UK

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