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NASUWT: Agents are treating supply teachers as ‘commodities’
by Felicity Collier in Manchester
SUPPLY teachers are being treated as “commodities,” delegates at the NASUWT conference heard yesterday.
The union is calling for national regulation of employment agencies that recruit supply teachers, to end exploitation that denies them proper wages, pensions and rights.
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