Barry spoke to teachers demonstrating at Parliament Square who were protesting at proposed changes to their contracts. This was part of the National Education Union’s campaign against the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) proposal to pull out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS).
This was the first day of strike action in the Trust's 149-year history. The trust said that calling these changes fire and rehire is “misleading” but there is nothing misleading about having your contract unilaterally changed and being placed on worse terms and conditions.