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Workers should not be saddled with debt for years because of the blunders of a company

Chancellor’s pay announcement only applies to teachers – and schools will have to find the bulk of the money themselves

Four in ten (41%) school kitchen staff are worried about their pay, with one in five (21%) earning the minimum wage, a new UNISON survey published today (Friday) has revealed.

Joint letter to Philip Hammond from UNISON, Unite and GMB calls on him to fund ‘a decent pay award’ for school and council staff in this wee’s local government settlement

From teaching assistants to teachers to pupils, asbestos in schools is a killer and cuts to school funding can only make the situation worse

Join us for a Lobby Against School Cuts to show MPs that, despite the Department of Education’s welcome rethink, there is still a problem

Schools are already cutting curriculum choices, activities for pupils and teaching and support staff posts. The unions are calling on the government to find […]

They went on strike for four days, held demonstrations and rallies, and a march which saw 700 school support staff walking […]

School cuts are affecting children and UNISON will gear up campaigning against them, local government conference vows

Our message is clear and my position is the same as our members: the council must negotiate – massive pay cuts for school support staff cannot be the answer

Union warns that Theresa May’s plans ‘risk most of our children being left behind in schools with fewer of the best teachers and potentially fewer resources’

Derby teaching assistants have taken their dispute over pay to the Labour party conference in Liverpool in a bid to win support from MPs and increase pressure on Derby City Council

And he told the Congress that this was a particular problem for school support staff, many of whom “are on atypical contracts, work part time and have a series […]

The union is fighting to protect the pay of thousands of its teaching assistant members around the UK

From today (Friday), learning support staff must be registered with the Education Workforce Council (EWC), which UNISON says marks the first step in recognising their hard work in our […]