Teaching unions threaten autumn strikes over pension reform

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The UK's two largest teaching unions have launched a joint campaign to oppose the government's reforms to teachers' pensions, pay and working conditions.

The National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, which represent 85% of teachers in England and Wales, threatened coordinated strike action in t...

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