Other public sector unions are threatening to crack down on railway workers and take action, with teachers preparing to go on strike if they do not receive a near-inflation pay cut. The National Education Association said it would not inform Education Secretary Nadim Zahawi that it planned to vote for 450,000 members if it did not receive a pay offer closer to inflation by Wednesday. NHS workers could also leave if this week’s pay rise is not in line with inflation – it is expected to reach 11% this year. Christina McAnea, head of Unison, the country’s largest NHS union, has warned the government that it was faced with a choice – to make a “reasonable pay” or risk a possible dispute. It is understood that the national executive of RMT will start planning the next round of railway strikes at the end of the week. A union source said: “We have been on strike for six months. The National Executive Committee will decide what to do next. They will meet only after this week and then they will have to inform the employers two weeks in advance “. The RMT can only call for strikes with a two-week notice until the end of November, six months after the return of ballot results at the end of May. Further labor action would then require a new vote. The two sides in the rail dispute remained poles on Sunday, with further talks to take place on Monday. The Telegraph has learned that Network Rail offered an initial wage increase of two percent and a demand for job cuts, while MM Leeds, RMT’s secretary general, revealed for the first time that he was demanding a wage increase of at least seven percent. Asked if passengers should expect a “long battle”, Mr Leeds told i: “It may be so, I hope it is not, but there does not seem to be much evidence at the moment that it will go otherwise. ». Network Rail said the company was now digging for a “wear and tear battle” that echoed the miners’ strike in the mid-1980s. A Network Rail source said: “It is very unlikely that these strikes will be one-off. The RMT will meet after the strikes and decide what will follow and we assume that there will be more unrest and more days of strike. This then leads the controversy to a battle of attrition. “We are looking to pay extra money to the RMT signals to break the strike. “Nothing has been decided, but discussions have taken place to do so.”