Union seeking higher teacher pay
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The NUT seeks a minimum rise of 10% or Â£3,000 for staff in England and Wales from September 2008.
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Classroom assistants are increasingly being asked to cover for teachers who are absent, union leaders claim.
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The National Credit Union Administration and the National Treasury Employees Union have reached agreement on a contract that will provide raises to field examiners and office employees, the union announced.
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Tens of thousands of South African teachers, nurses and other public sector workers took to the country&#39;s streets yesterday to demand better wages in one of the biggest protests since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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Teachers across the UK are urged to wear a tie to support their colleagues working in Africa and the Middle East.
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Johannesburg - Public sector unions will on Monday start consulting with their members on whether to accept or reject the latest 6.2% wage increase offer by government.
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The annual salary paid to Jerry D. Weast, superintendent of the Montgomery County schools, has increased just $4,892 since he took the job eight years ago.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of teachers and   supporters marched peacefully through Chile's capital on   Tuesday to demand higher wages for educators, avoiding a repeat   of the violent clashes between students and police in June.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool. Edwards detailed the proposals, which also include longer school years and overhauling the No Child Left Behind education law, in a speech at Brody Middle School in Des Moines.
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The largest teaching union in Wales wants the assembly government to guarantee newly-qualified teachers a job.
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Merit pay tied to student test scores seems all the rage in some educational circles, but many teachers think it's an idea whose time hasn't come.
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HELSINKI (BBC News) - Nearly 13,000 nurses across Finland are threatening to resign next month in a pay row, trade union officials say. The Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (Tehy) is demanding a 24% wage increase for its members over 28 months, rejecting employers' 12% offer. Tehy says half of its 124,000 staff are struggling to survive because of low pay, and many now want to work abroad. If no compromise is found, the mass resignations will cripple Finland's healthcare system, the union warns.
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Frustrated with meager salaries that have not kept pace with inflation, teachers, doctors and other state employees rallied Wednesday across Russia to demand higher wages.
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A union representing nearly one-third of the nation's postal workers said Friday it couldn't reach an agreement with the government on a pay package, pushing contract talks closer to binding arbitration.
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Postal union leaders agree a deal aimed at solving a dispute over pay and conditions.
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The NI Children's Commissioner calls on a teachers' union to reconsider its strike action.
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The TUC general council calls for the minimum wage to increase by 50p an hour from next year.