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Essex teachers take part in day of strike action

  • Teachers throughout Essex are staging a mass walkout today
  • Members of the National Education Union are taking to picket lines
  • The union is fighting for a pay rise for its thousands of members
  • Some schools have enforced partial closures as a result of the strikes
  • University staff, civil servants and train drivers are also striking

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