Pensions: Teachers Are Expected To Call For A Strike Ballot In An Ongoing Row Over Pensions

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Union members are demanding action over pensions which they say are being undermined by the Government.

The NUT's acting general secretary, Christine Blower, said that teachers had been "pushed to the limit".

"The mood amongst NUT members is that the Government is being completely unreasonable about pensions and that all the talk about the education budget being protected is arrant nonsense," she said.

"I fully expect that when we have a 'priority' debate on pensions that colleagues will say: 'Absolutely - we have to take some action.'"

Earlier this week the Association of Teachers and Lecturers backed a motion to ballot for its first strike in more than thirty years.

Last month a Government-commissioned report recommended replacing final salary public service pension plans with average salary schemes.