The overwhelming majority of incidents involving violence and abuse came from pupils, but a number were from parents. UNISON believes worsening behaviour […]
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Leaders of academy schools are spending taxpayers’ money
UNISON members working in Derby City Schools have lost 25% of their pay, up to £400 per month, and they need your support for strike action.
If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.
Higher education members will be voting over strike action as a result of a 1.1% pay offer for the majority of staff
Friday 9 September 2016 For immediate release Commenting on the prime minister’s speech about grammar schools today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The country may be under new management, but the Conservative Party’s obsession with grammar schools remains the same. “Grammar schools are outdated relics, removed in most parts of the country for very good reason […]
Everyone deserves to go to a good school – regardless of their background or their academic ability. That simply won’t be achieved by stacking even greater advantage and privilege in the hands of a few schools to the detriment of everyone else.
Labour-led Derby City Council put 4,000 school support workers on term-time only contracts this June. Media contacts: Liz Chinchen M: 07778 158175 E […]
Members in English further education have until 4 November to respond to the consultation on the employers’ ‘first and final’ pay offer
Friday 7 October 2016 For immediate release Labour council accused of intimidating UNISON teaching assistants in Durham dispute Teaching assistants who belong to UNISON – currently voting on possible strike action against Durham County Council’s plans to cut their pay by almost a quarter – are facing intimidation tactics from their employer, says their union […]
Durham teaching assistants – who have just one week left to vote for strike action in the long-running dispute over cuts to their pay – are to hold a major rally today (Thursday). Durham County Council is proposing to move teaching assistants to term-time pay, and extend the working week without paying for any extra […]
Stars in Our Schools day is almost upon us, what have you planned?
UNISON joins fellow unions, charities and others involved in early years education to sign open letter
This week UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis went to Waverley school in Enfield to celebrate the school support staff
More than 100 primary schools across County Durham will be affected tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday as teaching assistants strike for a second time in a long-running dispute over cuts to their pay. School support staff plan to protest at dozens of picket lines across the county over the two days. This will mean the closure […]