Academies
Many of our members work in academy schools in England and include teaching assistants, school business managers, librarians, secretaries, technicians, nursery staff, administrators, learning mentors, cleaners, caretakers and school meals workers Ð and many more who support pupilsę learning, and the running and maintenance of the school.
UNISON has recognition agreements with several national sponsors of academies (see Where you work) and we also negotiate with individual academies.
UNISON wants to see the work of support and professional staff being properly recognised. We are fighting for:
- decent pay and conditions
- all staff with the same academy sponsor to have a national pay structure
- a career structure that recognises increasing responsibilities
- access to training
- training budgets for support staff that are properly allocated at the planning stage - not just an afterthought
- all our members to be treated with respect and valued in the same way as teachers
Ark academies agree to pay £250 to lower paid
The Ark group of academy schools is the first national group to agree to pay £250 to staff earning less than £21,000. UNISON is now calling on other schools and academies to do the same, to help the lower paid deal with the rising cost of living.< Back | More >
