Photos from the picket line.

A teaching union has criticised the £200,000 annual pay package awarded to an academy principal in Plymouth.
An annual report from the Marine Academy, in Plymouth, showed principal Helen Mathieson was paid the money in salary and other remunerations in 2011.
Andy Woolley, from the National Union of Teachers, said the figure was not justifiable.

PLANS to turn two Portsmouth secondary schools into academies have hit a brick wall after sponsorship was withdrawn.
Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) has confirmed it is withdrawing its academy sponsorship of Miltoncross and Priory schools.
Both schools were expected to become AET academies later this year.
But it’s believed the trust has been asked by the Department for Education (DfE) to focus on raising results in its existing academies, rather than taking on more schools.

Salford Council’s meddling with Clarendon Road Primary School in Eccles has been slammed by Salford National Union of Teachers, as the ConDem Government is now forcing the school to become an academy.

An anti-academy candidate last week achieved a 32.5% swing to beat UKIP to a county council seat in Lincolnshire.
In a result largely unreported by the …