It is part of the unions’ joint campaign of action protesting cuts to education and changes to pay and conditions, including the move to performance-related pay, and attacks on teachers’ pensions.
The rallies came ahead of the start of a series of series of regional one-day strikes during the summer and autumn terms, with a national walk-out in the autumn.
Members of both unions voiced support for an escalation of the campaign of industrial action during their recent annual conferences.
The campaign is also fighting the expansion of the government’s academies and free schools programme and what it argues is the privatisation of state education.
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