Friday 9 September 2016 For immediate release Commenting on the prime minister’s speech about grammar schools today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The country may be under new...
Higher education members will be voting over strike action as a result of a 1.1% pay offer for the majority of staff.
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If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.
The article Our education system...
UNISON condemns possible creation of new selective schools
The article New grammar school backlash first appeared on the UNISON National site.
UNISON members working in Derby City Schools have lost 25% of their pay, up to £400 per month, and they need your support for strike action.
The article School support staff in Derby need your help...
Leaders of academy schools are spending taxpayers’ money
The article Academy chiefs helping themselves? first appeared on the UNISON National site.
More than half of classroom or teaching assistants (53%) across the UK have experienced physical violence at school in the past year, according to new figures published by UNISON today (Tuesday). In...
'We all live 12 months of the year' and need to paid for 12 months, local government conference delegates hear
The article UNISON pledges campaign for an end to school workers’ term-time...
Commenting on the news today (Friday) that the government has abandoned its plans to force all maintained schools still linked to local authorities to become academies, UNISON head of education Jon...
Commenting on the decision today (Thursday) by the Academies Transformation Trust (ATT) to announce jobs cuts and a major restructuring across its secondary and primary schools in the East and West...