TEACHERS must not relent on calls for an end to take-home pay cuts, a new grassroots group of National Education Union (NEU) members demanded today.

Educators Say No! said any suggestion that the austerity-hit workforce should accept further below-inflation wage cuts are “unacceptable and counterproductive.”

The intervention comes as Tory ministers find themselves under increasing pressure to publish the latest report from the sector’s pay review body, which has allegedly recommended a 6.5 per cent salary boost.