30 June and after
At Easter (22-26 April) the National Union of Teachers conference voted to ballot union members for a series of strikes against the coalition government's increases in pension contributions, cuts in pension provision, and raising of the pension age. The first strike will be 30 June. Other big public service union conferences are coming up soon. The civil service union PCS meets in Brighton on 16-20 May. Its Executive has already decided to ballot members on strike action, soon enough for them to join NUT on 30 June. The lecturers' union UCU, which meets in Harrogate on 28-30 May, is also...