Following 2 further days of strike action by the National Education Union last week, the Government has still not been forced back to the negotiating table.
Peter Shreeve, Assistant District Secretary of the National Education Union, said:
“Yet again, we are calling on Government to publish the STRB report and restart discussions with the unions, which Government stopped prior to Easter. We believe the STRB recommended a 6.5% across the board pay rise. If such a rise were properly funded, it could bring this dispute to a close.
Article continues below this advertisement “However, we still have a wall of silence from Government about reopening negotiations. There are rumours too that Government is intending not to implement the report. Meanwhile, the NEU focusses on the re-ballot to continue action. In the Autumn term the NEU will not be alone – headteacher unions ASCL and NAHT, as well as the NASUWT are also balloting.
“The Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan has succeeded in doing something that all previous education minsters have failed to achieve. She has managed to unite the teaching unions – an unprecedented show of determination and unity across the profession. It even shows how little Government cares about children and young people’s education and those who teach them.
“The responsibility for any further disruption in September lies squarely with the Prime Minister and the Education Secretary. They continue to refuse to re-enter negotiations with education unions to reach a settlement on a fully funded pay increase for teachers.
“No headteacher or teacher wants to be taking strike action, but the recruitment and retention issue is worsening. Holes are continuing to appear in the education system. The Prime Minister needs to understand that both the education profession and the education system is at breaking point.
“Years of real-term pay cuts, a chronic lack of school and college funding, enormous recruitment and retention challenges, escalating workload and working hours, and an inspection system that is doing more harm than good are hardly a secret.
Article continues below this advertisement “We urge Government to recognise the scale of the problem and start negotiating. Surely, it’s not too much to ask?”
Blah blah blah. Get back to work and do your easy job before your long summer holiday.
I assume you’ve never been/known a teacher?
Actually married to one who resigned from the union because they were taken over by idiots in the union who do not teach and have not taught for years
Never mind teachers, soon have a six week paid holiday on the taxpayer, dont work to hard.
That’s not have teachers pay works
Looks like she needs to stay of the pork pies
What relevance does your comment have to the issue of teachers striking?
Setting an example perhaps?
What example is that then? That children should judge others based on how they look? That larger people are less worthy then smaller people? That children all need to look a certain way?
Also proves not exactly on starvation wages.
Has that person claimed they are on starvation wages then?
She obviously isn’t a PE teacher it would seem. Probably highly qualified in Wokism.¼
Is it a negative to be alert and aware of social inequalities?
Just had a look at the percentage of students at each island secondary school who get grade 5 or above (mere 60% of possible marks required for grade 5!) in key subjects. The stats are shocking and no you don’t deserve a pay rise.
The island schools get the worst results in the whole of the UK. Dismal.
Maybe because teachers are treated like trash
Threaten them the sack to all of them lazy sods and see what happens! The government to use guts to confront these people not soft pedalling!!
What would sacking the teachers achieve?
A saving? Can’t imagine GCSE grades would be affected.
My Cousin was a teacher for years and hardly hard work as she used to teach in the prisons in the evenings too to get even more money. So hardly overworked
Most of us working are too tired out to work evenings as well
A woke inadequate bunch of lazy individuals.
Even if the Lollipop guy is off NONE wii done the stick to aid children. Oh so caring. NOT
A saving for who?
All of the people who would no longer be able to work because they would need to be home looking after their children? Oh wait, no not them…
Maybe the government who would now need to be paying all of those extra benefits to the people who are now no longer able to work? Oh not them either…
Maybe you meant the schools who would receive even less funding and likely need to close? Hmm not them…
Please enlighten us?
Y9 onwards don’t need a babysitter. They can sit at home and learn nothing much like they do now in school. Check the GCSE stats for island schools – jobs aren’t being done properly. If you worked in a private sector and massively underperformed, you wouldn’t go on strike asking for more money. Absolute joke and a cheek.
So your serious suggestion is that we get rid of all schooling from year 9 onwards?
What are you talking about people underperforming in a private sector don’t strike or ask for more money? It happens all the time! In every company, if cost of living goes up, unions fight for pay rises.
The difference is, in the private sector, those pay rises are agreed and given.
No child needs education after y9! Send them to the pits like I was!