UNISON consulting members on offer until 27 November (England only)
UNISON consulting members on offer until 27 November (England only)
Lots of plans are underway with schools holding awards ceremonies, putting on special assemblies and even dressing up as super heroes […]
Government should let UNISON go ahead and publish professional standards
Assembly Members including Jane Hutt, Julie James, Mark Drakeford and Vaughan Gething will all visit schools in their constituencies and speak to support staff. So […]
Threatened cuts to pay for teaching assistants in the North East have been condemned by UNISON. Staff in Durham schools could lose up to £5,000 a year under council proposals to introduce term-time only contracts from September 2016.
Employers offer two-year deal of 1% each year, with more for lower paid staff to match national living wage
UNISON celebration of school workers had a fantastic response
Government proposals for schools in England, set out in the Education and Adoption Bill, miss the important issues currently facing schools, says UNISON. The public services union believe that a government obsessed with forcing schools to become academies is failing to address inadequate funding, excessive workloads or helping hard-pressed school business managers to support their […]
Council and school workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland asked to have their say on pay offer
IPPR report supports union view that Education and Adoption Bill will see resources spent on admin, contracts and legal advice
Learning support workers or teaching assistants do all those vital but unheralded jobs in our schools
"Without their dedication and commitment, schools simply could not function and the council must be praised for making this […]
Learning support workers or teaching assistants do all those vital but unheralded jobs in our schools, supporting special educational needs children and underperforming children and helping teachers […]
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 […]
UNISON warns against ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ as government launches consultation on a new English school funding formula