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Labour MP Barry Gardiner addresses the fire-and-rehire fringe event at the NEU annual conference
OUTRAGED teachers will not be bullied by the widely condemned use of fire and rehire, Labour’s Barry Gardiner told delegates at an NEU conference fringe event today.
The MP for Brent North praised the union’s campaigns to resist the tactic, which sees workers forced to accept contracts with inferior pay and working conditions.
The NEU recently defeated attempts by bosses at the Girls Day School Trust to use the practice to cut pensions for existing staff at 23 independent schools across England.
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
NEU members at Woodfield School in north London are taking sustained industrial action against enforced cuts to learning support assistants’ hours and pay. MARY ADOSSIDES reports
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years