TEACHERS threatened industrial action over their workload and pensions in moves which could create tensions with an incoming government.
The NUT demanded a 35-hour working week at their annual conference in Liverpool, saying the profession works more unpaid hours than any other public sector worker.
And pensions were high on the agenda at the NASUWT teaching union’s annual conference in Birmingham, where delegates backed a resolution to take industrial action over any attempt to change public sector pensions.
During a debate on workload at the NUT, politicians were condemned for turning teaching from a “vocation into a treadmill”.
History teacher Rinaldo Frezzato said the union should “send a clear message to all of those out there with governmental pretensions that teachers have had enough of your bullying and your increasing demands”.
Teachers are now clocking up an average of 18.7 hours unpaid work each week, the conference heard.
