- 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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