Following the National Education Union (NEU)’s decision to actively recruit school support staff and withdraw from the agreement with us which they had signed in 2017, on Friday the NJC unions met with the TUC and expressed strong concerns.
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Failure to deliver a meaningful pay rise will make recruitment and retention problems worse
New TUC judgment agrees who can, and cannot, recruit and represent school support staff
The new School Support Staff Negotiating Body is a genuine opportunity to make sure all school staff are treated fairly and equally
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UNISON is urging school support staff members in England to take part in a consultation on the make-up of their new negotiating body
Support staff need nationally-recognised agreements if they are to benefit from recent changes to the education sector
Topics this year included the Employment Rights Bill, children’s online safety and violent behaviour in schools
Members Sam Thornton and Jill Cartwright believe that their working lives could be transformed when the Employment Rights Bill is passed into law
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MPs and UNISON members joined at a parliamentary reception to celebrate the importance of school support staff
Education motions closed out the 2024 local government conference in Brighton
‘If support staff didn’t do their job, you’d notice it’
‘Education workers in Northern Ireland are not prepared to sit and wait while you sort out all the political problems. Working people need pay justice now’
The shadow education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has announced the party’s policy to reintroduce the body if they win the next general election
The complaint alleged that the education union had actively sought to recruit school support staff and had intervened in pay negotiations between the three recognised unions
Many workers at United Learning chain losing out on wages