Secondary and primary schools across the borough are expected to close when various unions team up for a day-long strike next week.

Union members from the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the University and College Union, and the Public and Commercial Services union - along with others - are due to stage a mass walkout on June 30.

The UK-wide industrial action, which some have dubbed Black Thursday, is in response to the Government's sweeping public sector cuts.

It is yet unclear what impact the mass demonstration will have within the borough - but schools are expected to be hit.

Spencer Barnshaw, NUT secretary for Wandsworth, said: "We would hope that all our members support the action and in many schools this will result in closure - certainly I would expect most of the secondaries and a good number of primaries to close.

"However, this is in no way our aim. We simply want to allow our members to make their point to the government."

Schools have yet to decide how they will cope with the day.

A spokesman for Wandsworth Council said it was not yet known what impact the strikes would have within Wandsworth.

NUT members issued a statement, which said: "We represent the majority of teachers in Wandsworth and wanted to share with you the reasons why we are taking industrial action on our pensions on 30 June.

"Strike action is not a move that any teacher or head teacher takes lightly. Educating our pupils is the most important aspect of our working life. We take action to protect the quality of education in Wandsworth, because if the Government’s proposals go through teachers will drop out of the pension scheme, potentially making it unviable. Teaching will become a less attractive profession and it will ultimately be pupils who suffer.

"We realise that as teachers we are not the only people who are facing huge threats to our pensions and jobs. We are also aware that many workers in the private sector do not have adequate pension provision and this is an issue the Government needs to address. But the teachers’ scheme has been well managed over the years, and recently changes were made to take into account the ageing population and to enable costs to reduce over the next 50 years. These reforms are working well.

"We need decent pensions for all. Cutting public sector pensions will just make more pensioners poorer and put the cost of supporting them onto the State and taxpayers.

"We are frustrated that after months of talks with Ministers, the Government looks determined to go ahead with its proposals to make us pay more, work longer and get less for our pensions. While we sincerely regret having to take this action, and any inconvenience caused to parents, pupils and employers, we hope you understand why as a last resort we are taking action on June 30."

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