Get paid to go on strike?
Unions are increasingly paying 100% strike pay. Sounds good — but there are downsides
London school strikes: All out from 27 February!
By Jeremy Dewar The National Education Union is coordinating strikes across 10 schools in four London boroughs. Teachers are on
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Bureaucrats behaving badly
The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.
Teachers: protest strikes won’t win real pay rise
More strikes announced, but union leaders preparing to settle for pay cut
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Yellow Unison goes running to education bosses
By a Unison activist THE NATIONAL Education Union has won an impressive mandate to call an official strike ballot for
Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination
Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.
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Report — TUC lefts urge resistance to cost of living crisis
By Jeremy Dewar “A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK” A LONDON TUC rally
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The fight for safe re-opening of schools goes on
A brief respite is being eroded by the government’s failure to adequately fund safe schools
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School closures can develop into fight for workers’ control of education
By KD Tait Following a mass online briefing attended by tens of thousands of education workers at the weekend, trade
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Imperialism in the classroom: decolonise the curriculum
Tories ban anti-capitalist materials from the classroom.
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Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools
For parents’, students’ and teachers’ control of health and safety in our schools.
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Unions and Labour Councils must step up the fight against unsafe re-opening of schools
How we can stop the schools reopening on 1 June and put public health before private wealth
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School closures: skeleton service or community organisation?
The vulnerable will suffer most in any social – and economic – lockdown. We must insist schools apply a broad definition to the terms of which students and families are ‘vulnerable’ based on need, not the dictates of an uncaring, neoliberal government seeking to protect business over workers and the poor.
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Unison Ballots School Staff For Action
After years of inaction, Unison members finally have the chance to send a message to the Tories that workers are prepared to fight the destruction of our education system
Academy collapses: students, parents and teachers among the debris
Wakefield City Academies Trust has announced that it is pulling out of 21 schools, throwing the academic lives of thousands of children across Yorkshire into limbo.
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Tories deploy 'British values' against Muslims
By Bernie McAdam After their humiliation in the EU elections at the hands of UKIP the Tories had to do something
Teachers: all out on 26 march
The National Union of Teachers has called a national strike in a continuing campaign to defend pay, pensions and conditions:
The NUT and the Grand old Duke of York
By Bernie McAdam Teachers from both main unions have overwhelmingly supported a series of regional strikes against Education Secretary