More strikes are planned in the coming weeks
Drivers and bus passengers in Nottingham faced significant delays as around 1,000 public sector workers marched through the city centre during a day of major strike action. People from several unions walked out on Wednesday demanding better pay and conditions.
PCS member Charlotte Watts, who works for the Department for Education at Nottingham's Unity Square building, was one of those who made the decision to strike. She said: "I am having to do more and more work by the cost of living crisis and rising inflation means in effect that I am getting paid less for that work.
"If I as the director of English put out a job advert, I just don’t get responses because even though we’re a fantastic school, teachers across the country have low pay and huge workloads. We need a pay rise funded by the Government, not one that is coming out of the mouths of our children. The last pay rise had to be funded by school budgets and so we had to make cuts elsewhere, which directly affects our pupils.
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