UK Teachers, Postal Workers Warn of Potential Strikes in Pay Row
- Industrial action adds to sense of ‘summer of discontent’
- Rail workers are already holding biggest strikes in 30 years
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UK teachers and postal workers warned of potential industrial action if their pay doesn’t track spiraling inflation, adding to this week’s rail strikes and underlining a wider sense of malaise in the British workforce amid a growing squeeze on living standards.
Teachers will ballot for a strike in October as a last resort if the government refuses to give them pay rises in line with inflation during negotiations over the summer, National Education Union General Secretary Mary Bousted, which has 460,000 members, told TalkTV on Tuesday. Separately, the Communication Workers Union next week will ballot its 115,000 postal workers about proposed strikes over pay, it said on Twitter.