Teachers across England and Wales are to stage a series of strike action over pensions, pay and working conditions, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) have announced today.

In a joint statement, the unions have outlined a five-point plan for industrial action, after failing to reach an agreement with the government over working conditions.

The plan threatens national rallies across England and Wales in April and May; and a rolling programme of national strikes to start with local authority areas in the North West of England on 27 June.

Further strikes are to continue into the autumn months, escalating to a one-day all-out national strike before the end of autumn, if the secretary of state for education Michael Gove refuse to respond “positively”, they unions have said.

In addition, they plan a continuation of the current actions; and escalation of the national action short of strike action.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower added: “We have already rejected the new pension arrangements and the proposed deregulation of teachers’ pay. The attacks on pay and pensions in combination with increasing workload is making teaching an unsustainable option for many.”

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