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Ballot Paper Collector | Politics Teacher | @ASCL_UK Council & Exec | Hollyoaks Education Adviser| FCCT | @b_s_museum Trustee |Co-🪑ASCL LGBT+ Leaders’ Network
Dec 27, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
🧵35 Years of Teacher Strikes - a lot less than you think!
#BePrepared #SuitUp #ChangeTheNarrative

1. You are always doing this
2. Teachers have it easy
3. Think of the Children

/1 1. You are always doing this. There have been 3 significant national teacher strikes in the last 35 years.

1987 - conditions and class sizes

2008 NUT strike over pay 8k/25k schools closed

2011 Pension strike supported by NUT/NASUWT and NAHT (first national ballot ever). /2