Other teaching unions said they might well boycott the plan.

A slap in the face' The response from the teaching unions was mixed.

I can certainly see why the teaching unions want to defend it.

May I remind everyone that the role of the teaching unions is to support and represent their members.

Can't help but feel the teaching unions are looking after jobs/staff etc rather than the kids welfare and education.

The teaching unions declined to back the deal, saying they needed more details.

Many of them are in the same teaching unions.

But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing.

But if the Guardian and the teaching unions consider free schools to be a bad idea, that is enough reason to send your kids there.

When you see a good model, surely the teaching unions should be standing up and saying, 'How is this happening?