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Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) on Piccadilly march to a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, in a long-running dispute over pay, March 15, 2023
INDEPENDENT schools are failing to pay support staff properly with two in three forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference heard today.
Delegates passed a motion for Britain’s largest education union to build a national campaign to improve pay and conditions for support staff in the sector.
They also heard a recent poll found that nine in 10 have been noticeably affected by cost-of-living pressures, seven in 10 saying their pay “could be better or was inadequate.”
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