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Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) South East Region at a rally in Chichester, West Sussex
TEACHING unions united today to demand urgent action to address the current crisis of pay, conditions and dire staff shortages.
The NEU, NASUWT, NAHT, Community and ASCL are calling on the School Teachers Review Body (STRB), which advises the government on pay and conditions, to make urgent recommendations on salaries, workload and conditions of service to ease the recruitment and retention crisis in the profession.
In a joint statement, the unions say that the continuing damage to children’s education, caused by over a decade of unjustified attacks on pay and declining funding to school budgets has resulted in critically low levels of teachers.
The appeal comes after the Department for Education submitted its evidence on teachers’ pay to the STRB, recommending a 3 per cent pay increase for most teachers and school leaders from this September.
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
