Campaign highlights school support staff, the Stars in our Schools
Campaign highlights school support staff, the Stars in our Schools
UNISON celebration of school workers had a fantastic response
Learning support workers or teaching assistants do all those vital but unheralded jobs in our schools
This was the right decision to back low-paid workers by agreeing to pay their fees.” UNISON Cymru/Wales lead organiser for schools Jess Turner added: “Yet another council has […]
Neath Port Talbot set to pay as registration fees for school support staff as UNISON campaign continues
"The branch held a number of meetings to persuade the council on the merits of our case. And individual members felt very strongly and wrote to councillors urging them to commit to payment.” […]
More than 140,000 people have signed a petition against forcing all local authority schools to become academies – why not join them?
Government plans to force all schools in England to become academies are just one issue facing support staff
UNISON believes these findings highlight a crisis in health and well-being engulfing schools, which could […]
And it’s time this was tackled head on. A new UNISON survey has revealed that more than half (52%) of school support staff in the UK have experienced […]
Schools affected across the city as 500 protest outside Council House over imposed changes to contracts
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.
Derby council changed school support staff’s terms and conditions in June after they were moved onto term-time only contracts […]
Anyone can get involved in helping to organise a Stars in Our Schools event. Last year, hundreds of schools across the country organised events to celebrate a […]
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 […]