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NEU: setback, but elements to build on

Despite a fairly active reject campaign, members of the National Education Union (NEU) have voted to accept the improved teachers' pay offer

"Safe with me": for how long?

The right-wing think tank Policy Exchange says schools are becoming unsafe for children because teachers accommodate our LGBTQ+ students

Lewisham academisation fight

Staff at the Prendergast group of schools in Lewisham, South East London, members of the National Education Union, have had three days of strikes to stop the semi-privatisation — with 12 more days scheduled (9-11, 16-18 and 23-25 May; 6-8 June)

Education: capitalism warps its own work

Over the last fifty years or so, universities have expanded hugely, in Britain and in other countries. The world average “enrolment” rate is now around 40% of the age group.

In Britain it’s about 50%: it was 8% in 1970, about 2% in 1950.

The driver seems to be the thirst of capital for more...

Teachers go for more strikes

The first business at the National Education Union (NEU) conference, 3-6 April, was to announce that an online consultation, with a recommendation to reject, had 98% rejecting the government's offer

Putin apologism defeated at NEU

For the second year in a row those on the left who want to ignore the urgent need for solidarity with Ukraine and excuse Putin by claiming the war is NATO’s fault have been defeated at National Education Union (NEU) conference (3-6 April)

NEU: stand firm

Teachers who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) in England will strike on 15-16 March.

Scottish teachers step up strikes

It is now a whole year since the Scottish teachers’ union EIS submitted a 10% pay claim to the Scottish Government

NEU Wales postponement a bad move

Following the National Education Union’s (NEU) national strike on 1 February, the union is now in rolling regional action

NEU: set action now for after 16 March!

Reports suggest that the National Education Union (NEU) has continued to recruit significant numbers of members in the run up to our first strike day on 1 February.

Teachers' strike is for all who work in education

In Wales, both teachers and support staff in the NEU will be taking official strike action on 1 February and on three more days in February and March. In England, only the NEU teachers’ ballot cleared the threshold of a 50% turnout (with more than 90% of those who voted voting to strike). The...

School workers call strikes

The National Education Union (NEU) will strike nationally on Wednesday 1 February, and follow that by three weeks of rolling regional strikes between 14 February and 2 March and two days of national strikes on 15-16 March. 15 March is Budget Day; the union will call a national demonstration outside...

NEU support staff fight for equality

The National Education Union (NEU) support staff conference on 24 January voted to send a bold motion to the union’s annual conference calling for the union to “seek, at the earliest opportunity, recognition and negotiating rights for our support staff members” and to “end the undertaking not to...

NEU plans a strong start

The schedule agreed by the National Education Union (NEU), if its ballot beats thresholds, is a one-day strike co-ordinated with other unions on 1 February followed by rolling regional strikes from 14 February to 16 March, and a two-day national strike on 15-16 March, with a national demonstration...

School strikes in Scotland 24 and 28 November

Teachers in Scotland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action to force the Scottish Government to improve the 5% pay offer already on the table from three months ago.

With a 71% turnout, 96% of EIS members voted in favour of taking industrial action. The first one day strike is...

Union fightback stops anti-strike law

Doug Ford, the right-wing “Progressive Conservative” premier of Ontario, Canada, has backed down on anti-union legislation after a union fightback.

“We harnessed our collective power when it was needed most. Ontario workers, and especially the brave CUPE education workers, defended the right to...

Anti-union laws aim to smash school strikes in Canada

The anti-union, right-wing state government is attempting to crush strike action by poorly paid school support staff in Ontario, Canada.

The workers, who are cleaners, school secretaries, librarians and teaching assistants, are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Inflation in...

Unison should back NEU efforts

The National Education Union (NEU) is balloting its support staff members in state schools (whose pay is either determined or indirectly influenced by local government pay negotiations) for strikes over pay and increased funding for schools.

Shamefully, Unison’s bureaucracy has reacted by...

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