Lecturers at Thurrock and Basildon College are to strike tomorrow in pursuit of a pay claim.
They will join fellow members of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education at at 42 colleges across England who have already staged a one-day strike in the dispute over a national deal.
The union claims Thurrock and Basildon College has refused to implement in full the conditions of a national deal, agreed by the Association of Colleges and NATFHE in summer 2003.
That deal included a three per cent rise in 2003/04 followed by another three per cent rise in 2004/5.
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