NEU general secretary says ahead of Wednesday’s strike that teachers are undervalued, underpaid and overworked

Teachers are at “the end of their tether”, Mary Bousted of the National Education Union has said, as the government called last-ditch talks on Monday in a bid to avert this week’s schools strikes in England.

Teachers are expected to be among up to half a million workers across the public sector taking strike action on Wednesday 1 February, as Rishi Sunak’s government continued to face a relentless wave of industrial unrest.

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