NASUWT strike ballot fails to reach threshold required for industrial action
A strike ballot of NASUWT members has failed to reach the threshold required for industrial action despite nine out…
Teachers
Labour motion on ending tax breaks for private schools rejected by MPs
A Labour motion calling for the creation of a Commons select committee to consider ending tax breaks for…
Labour slams government handling of schools as teacher recruitment falls 20%
Stephen Morgan has slammed the government’s “disastrous” management of schools, arguing that the Tories have been “actively dissuading”…
Shelly Asquith’s TU-esday round-up: A bumper edition for the year end
It didn’t have to be like this, did it? We needed tougher measures to enforce safety, contain the…
Teachers have no faith in government to handle Covid, NEU survey finds
Faith in the government among teaching staff is at rock bottom according to new research from the National…
Education unions reject “divisive and inadequate” government teaching pay rise
Four of the UK’s education trade unions have issued a joint statement criticising the government’s new pay proposals…
As a newly qualified teacher, here’s why I’m marching against school cuts today
With Theresa May’s government in utter chaos, the prospect of a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government that could tackle…
Why the National Education Union should affiliate to the Labour Party
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference – my first, and the last before it fully amalgamates with…
There is a retention crisis in teaching; here’s how Labour can solve it
As we have been warning for the last seven years, this Conservative Government has created a recruitment crisis…
Dave Prentis: Tories’ inhumane public sector pay cap is creating a poverty trap
Yesterday at the TUC, I was proud to lead the debate on public sector pay. For Unison’s 1.3…
