Manchester was brought to a standstill for a short while this afternoon as striking teachers marched through the city. Members from the National Education Union (NEU) began their march on Liverpool Road, walked along Deansgate, then Peter Street, before heading down Oxford Road for a rally at All Saints’ Park.
Traffic and trams were held to allow the procession to pass at lunchtime. Teachers from across Greater Manchester, and the north west, attended the rally — with many saying they had taken the decision to strike because of working conditions, and fears over the quality of education they were able to give pupils.
Others were motivated by breaking-point levels of stress. READ MORE: One year on from the Clean Air Zone being paused, where are we now? “I want to cry,” Sandra Mounier, a teacher at Manchester Academy, told the MEN. “I am always behind, even though when I calculate my hours and for the past few years I have been working five weeks per month.
That’s 35 hours of overtime a month.” Sandra, who is French and teaches English as an Additional Language, has also worked abroad and said conditions in the UK were poorer compared to her previous schools.
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