- ISS has been awarded more than £300m worth of contracts since 2015. It brought in the payroll changes between 18 April 2019 and 9 May 2019 to pay staff fortnightly. Media contacts: Garfield Myrie […]
Chancellor’s pay announcement only applies to teachers – and schools will have to find the bulk of the money themselves
A quarter (25%) of the staff responding say they’ve had to take out loans from banks, credit unions or payday loan companies simply to make ends meet. One in […]
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
UNISON head of education Jon Richards said: “The cuts in schools budgets and the fragmentation of the school system have undermined how health and safety risks […]
And we’re working together with other education unions to hold a Lobby Against School Cuts on 24 October, to show MPs that school funding is still in crisis and that real increases in […]
The government’s funding announcement today (Monday) is disappointing and means a return to smoke and mirrors statements on school funding, say education unions. UNISON, ATL, NUT and GMB have said that whilst any extra money is welcome, it isn’t enough to stop the huge cuts that schools are making. Calculations published on the organisations’ School Cuts […]
Faced with huge cuts to their pay, these UNISON members fought back
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
UNISON president Eric Roberts tells TUC unions must make the case for a system which gets better outcomes for union members and employers
The union is fighting to protect the pay of thousands of its teaching assistant members around the UK
All learning support staff in Wales must now be registered with the Education Workforce Council
