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ATL members voted overwhelmingly to ballot for strike action over changes to teachers' pensions
19 April 2011
Following this vote ATL's Executive Committee will meet this afternoon to decide whether to authorise a ballot for a strike this summer.
ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: "Members deeply regret having to take this step to ballot for strike action, but they believe they need to take a strong stand now to make the Government listen."
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Notes to editors
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) is an independent, registered trade union and professional association, representing approximately 160,000 teachers, headteachers, lecturers and support staff in maintained and independent nurseries, schools, sixth form, tertiary and further education colleges in the United Kingdom.
ATL exists to help members, as their careers develop, through first rate research, advice, information and legal advice.
ATL is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) and Education International (EI). ATL is not affiliated to any political party and seeks to work constructively with all the main political parties.