In the midst of a lengthy campaign to better the working conditions of teachers in England, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has voted to strike starting on July 5th. The NUT and its members have expressed immense dissatisfaction with the massive funding cuts to schools which have adversely affected teachers by worsening their pay and working conditions, vastly increasing their workloads, and preventing them from properly attending to and teaching their students. The Department for Education has warned the NUT against taking this action, stating that they are more than willing to formally negotiate and accusing the union of “playing politics with children's futures”.
See "Teaching union backs programme of strikes", Hannah Richardson, BBC, June 24, 2016