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An emergency motion to be debated by the National Union of Teachers sets out preparations for a one-day walkout as "the first stage" in a campaign to force Mr Brown to reconsider his plans.

The NUT should unite with other teachers' unions to oppose the Government's target for limiting public sector pay rises to 2%, the motion said.

Nurses and midwives have already condemned plans to give them what unions have said amounts to a rise of less than 2% a year, while the armed forces receive up to 9% under Mr Brown's proposals.

The NUT's executive has drafted a priority motion for debate at the union's annual conference in Harrogate.

The motion said: "Conference rejects the Government's 2% pay target for teachers and other public sector workers.

"It instructs the executive to seek, through the TUC, clear and united opposition to such discriminatory and ill-formed policy.

"Conference instructs the executive to take all possible steps through the TUC to build a joint campaign of opposition at national and local levels to the Government's unfair public sector pay limit, supported if necessary by joint industrial action."

The motion stated that the NUT should "prepare to ballot members for a national one-day strike in cooperation with other teachers' organisations and public sector unions as the first stage of any industrial action which is required to protect the pay of teachers and of other public sector workers."

Delegates believe that the co-ordinated campaign against the Government's proposed pension reforms two years ago by teachers and other public sector unions should be a model for how a successful pay campaign would work.