'As much as I love teaching my students, if it can’t pay my bills, I’ll have no choice but to stop doing what I love, stop doing what I’m bloody good at, and start doing whatever pays the bills.'

I spoke to teachers struggling with the cost-of-living.

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Good from Taj Ali 👏

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National Education Union BALLOT 🗳️🗳️🗳️

This time it’s postal 📮

A decade of Tory cuts has left teachers grappling with crisis after crisis – so today, hundreds of thousands begin balloting on national strike action.

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Excellent piece in @tribune underlining the importance of members voting yes in our national ballot. pcs.org.uk/sayuvoted #PCSballot #RaiseUpPay

A great piece in ⁦Tribune⁩ from ⁦Taj Ali⁩ and ⁦Francesca Newton⁩ who spoke to civil servants about why we’re ready to strike.

Powerful contributions from comrades on how they’ve been impacted by a decade of pay restraint. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/10/civil-…

'My colleagues in the office were recently discussing who would cave and put their heating on first. I’m not sure if this is a game or a bet, but I know there are absolutely no winners.'

Me and Francesca Newton spoke to civil servants at the sharp end of the cost-of-living crisis.

This year's pathetic 2% pay offer for civil servants came hot on the heels of a decade of 'pay restraint'. It's not a one-off from the government, it's a pattern – and industrial action is the only way to change it.

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What does a Sunak win mean for a Kashmiri kid attending a state comprehensive school in Bradford or a Bengali working a minimum wage job in East London? We need to move beyond hollow representational politics that is merely skin-deep. This week's column.

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In Britain, there's no formal protection for staff whose employers make life difficult for them because they've been on strike – another way our laws put bosses' interests above workers' needs.

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In Britain, there's no formal protection for staff whose employers make life difficult for them because they've been on strike – another way our laws put bosses' interests above workers' needs. Me for Tribune.

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'Bussing' of children of south Asian, West Indian & African backgrounds took place in England from 1964 to **1986** in Blackburn, Bradford, Bristol, Ealing, Halifax, Hounslow, Huddersfield, Leicester, Luton, Walsall, West Bromwich & Wolverhampton ...

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