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April 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Delegates from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the NASUWT, which are both holding their annual conferences over the Easter weekend, have already taken action over pensions changes and are angry about proposals for regional pay rates.
Schools across the UK could face fresh strikes as early as this summer as teachers remain embroiled in a row with ministers over changes to pensions and pay, British media reported.
A priority motion on public sector pensions, expected to be discussed at the NUT conference in Torquay on Saturday, calls for joint walkouts this summer and beyond to “defeat the government’s proposals”.
It says that the NUT should attempt to build a “coalition of unions” committed to more strikes.
The summer term is the main exam period for schools across the UK, although the NUT insisted it was not the union’s intention to disrupt that.
“Our dispute is with the secretary of state, and ultimately, with the rest of the government in terms of public sector pensions,” said the NUT general secretary, Christine Blower.
“We will obviously, when we discuss with other unions, discuss what timing makes sense and which regions make sense, but we would not be setting out, deliberately, to undermine the exams season”, she added.
The NUT took part in a walkout over pensions on 30 June last year, after the exams period, as well as joining the TUC’s national day of action on November 30. NUT members in London also staged a one-day walkout last month.
The union argues that the government’s reforms will leave teachers paying in more, working longer and receiving less when they retire. Ministers say changes to public sector pensions are needed to ensure they are sustainable.
The NUT deputy general secretary, Kevin Courtney, said the NUT was seeking to work with “as many teaching unions as we possibly can on taking the campaign forward”.
“It’s absolutely clear that teachers don’t accept the changes that the government is making, and they’re only just beginning to see them, so that next month will be the first tranche of the contribution increase,” he said.
“So for the first time since the 1930s, we think, teachers will see a reduction, a cash reduction, in their take home pay, because the contributions go up.”
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