Pickets were out in force this morning at Merrill Academy. Members from the NUT and NASUWT joined a lively picket outside the school on the first day of six days of strike action. Teachers at Merrill have been refused pay progression after being set unachievable appraisal targets. Merrill teachers helped pupils to achieve their second best ever exam results last year and their reward was to be denied the pay progression they should have been entitled to. If the academy sponsor, Derby College, do not agree to negotiate new pay and appraisal policies which are not based on punishing teachers, further action next week and the week after looks inevitable.
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