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3rd April 2018
06:54pm BST

Each of the three unions today overwhelmingly backed an emergency motion to ballot for industrial action "up to and including strike action" if the government doesn't make a commitment by early May.
The government and the unions are due to sit down for talks later in April.
The unions are concerned that new teachers are being lured abroad by better wages and conditions.
Over a quarter of a million secondary school students were affected when ASTI teachers went on a week-long strike in November of 2016, also over equal pay for new teachers.
Far more pupils would be affected if all unions were to vote to strike this time around.Explore more on these topics: