Rishi Sunak to step in with new law to stop school strike mayhem trends now
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Teachers could be forced to tell schools they are planning to strike to avoid a repeat of yesterday’s nationwide disruption.
Ministers are urgently examining whether to tighten the law to close a loophole that prevents headteachers from knowing which staff are taking part in industrial action.
Tens of thousands of teachers who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) left their posts and joined picket lines yesterday.
In a general strike in all but name – dubbed ‘Walkout Wednesday’ – they joined 100,000 civil servants, 70,000 university staff and thousands of train drivers and Border Force officers in staging industrial action.
The strikes caused misery for parents, many of whom were left in limbo after the union encouraged teachers to refuse to tell heads in advance whether they would turn up for work.
Teachers, pictured at a rally in Whitehall yesterday, could be forced to tell schools they are planning to strike to avoid a repeat of yesterday’s nationwide disruption
Tens of thousands of teachers who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) left their posts and joined picket lines yesterday
It meant some schools were forced to close unnecessarily, disrupting their pupils’ education and forcing parents to take unpaid leave or pay for extra childcare.
Rishi Sunak is said to have been ‘incredulous’ that militant unions are able to disrupt contingency plans by refusing to provide basic information on which teachers are
