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Schools affected across the city as 500 protest outside Council House over imposed changes to contracts

School support staff travel from Derby to Westminster to lobby MPs over 25% pay cut

If she wants to do that, she'll need to start by ending and reversing senseless cuts in pay and services. And she should work towards real and meaningful education reforms, not the backwards return to […]

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

We’ll continue to fight for and alongside striking staff in Derby to win them the pay deal they deserve. And I want to see Durham teaching assistants voting for strike action too, so we can show their local council the strength of feeling wherever vital public servants like teaching assistants are mistreated.

‘You are the union’ general secretary tells striking teaching assistants in Derby, battling imposed 25% pay cut

Executive agrees report on campaign speaking up for members and public services ‘in the worst of political circumstances’

UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by up to 25%. The staff – who begin their latest two-day strike today (Thursday) – plan to distribute balloons and stickers to parents and children as part of their good-natured community […]

Derby teaching assistants have voted by nine to one to reject the latest offer from the council to settle the long-running dispute over their new contracts. School support staff across the city have now taken seven days of strike action – and three weeks of lunchtime protests – over the council’s decision to cut their […]

‘We should make Eric proud by continuing on in the union – let’s make and keep this the best union’

Derby teaching assistants are to take six days of strike action in the long-running dispute over cuts to their pay, UNISON has announced today (Wednesday). School support staff will take action next week and the week after (14, 15, 19 and 20 December) and then again in the new year (19 and 20 January). The […]

Teaching assistants, school supervisors, admin staff and other support workers striking between 7am and 1pm every day this week

76% of people who responded to survey about the strike back UNISON members defending their pay

General secretary Dave Prentis launches new campaign in long-running dispute over 25% cuts

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