- Conference
- 2010 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 15 October 2009
- Decision
- Carried
This conference welcomes the opportunity presented by the creation of the new schools staff negotiating body to properly recognise the true worth of our schools staff members.
Without our women members working as school meals staff, caretakers, librarians, administrators and teaching assistants, schools would simply not function, yet all too often these women are low paid, their skills and commitment are exploited, and their terms and conditions fall below those of the teaching staff.
Many women choose to work within the school environment to enable them to meet their caring commitments, and conference believes that the employers’ knowledge of this contributes to the undervaluing of the staffs’ expertise.
Conference calls upon the national women’s committee to liaise with the education workforce service group to seek to ensure that equity and fairness in terms and conditions is achieved for all staff working in schools, including an end to term-time only contracts, and that issues arising from devolution are adequately addressed.
Conference further calls upon the national women’s committee to work with Labour Link and the education workforce service group to campaign for and lobby the government to ensure that adequate and sustainable funding is made available to deliver the long-overdue rewards our members deserve.