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NUT REPS BRIEFINGS

NUT REPS BRIEFINGS. AUTUMN TERM 2013. CONTENTS. Autumn term activities What is the action for? Can we win? What should reps do?. AUTUMN TERM ACTIVITIES: 1. Rallies for Education LONDON - 14 th September NOTTINGHAM - 14 th September CAMBRIDGE – 21 st September

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NUT REPS BRIEFINGS

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  1. NUT REPS BRIEFINGS AUTUMN TERM 2013

  2. CONTENTS • Autumn term activities • What is the action for? • Can we win? • What should reps do?

  3. AUTUMN TERM ACTIVITIES: 1 Rallies for Education • LONDON - 14th September • NOTTINGHAM - 14thSeptember • CAMBRIDGE – 21st September • EXETER – 21stSeptember Carrying on a series of rallies, reaching out to parents, heads, governors and the general public

  4. AUTUMN TERM ACTIVIES: 2 Rolling strike action • 1st October 2013 • 17th October 2013 Continuing the successful action begun last term in the North West 1st October is during Conservative Conference – so there will be lots of coverage 29th September will also see TUC demo on the NHS and austerity

  5. AUTUMN TERM ACTIVITIES: 3 Continuation of action short of strike and school level escalation to paid strike action Action instructions are on website In particular we want to focus on school pay policies and school appraisal policies

  6. AUTUMN TERM ACTIVITIES: 4 If Gove doesn’t show he is serious about settling the dispute: National, one day, all out strike after half term All NUT and NASUWT members in schools and 6th Form Colleges in England will be called on to take action

  7. WHAT IS THE ACTION FOR?: 1 The dispute is with Gove It covers • PENSIONS (especially working to 68 to get full pension, no valuation) • DEREGULATION OF PAY (end of national scales, loss of portability) • PERFORMANCE RELATED PAY (different in every school, huge power for heads) and now includes • DEREGULATION OF SCHOOL DAY, WORKING HOURS ETC….. We want to force negotiations and concessions, we want to influence all parties whilst they are vulnerable because of elections

  8. WHAT IS THE ACTION FOR?: 2 STRB reports in Jan/Feb over terms and conditions If they give Gove what he wants, as they did over pay then: • School level determination of number of members’ working days, length of holidays, schools days and level of Saturdays • Removal of cover protection • Removal of lunch duty protection • Weakening of PPA protection Don’t believe it will happen? Sir Michael Wilshaw says “teachers at my old school, Mossbourne, liked coming in on Saturday morning”

  9. CAN WE WIN? • We did win concessions through pensions strikes • Protection for those 50 + • Increase of 8% in Government’s offer This 8% increase worth more in every year of retirement that most strike pay • We are winning in many schools on pay policies etc... • Parental opinion is anti-Gove and parties are vulnerable in the run up to the election • NUT and NASUWT together are more than 80% of teachers

  10. WHAT SHOULD REPS DO? • The most important thing– Talk with colleagues in schools. Work out best way to do this with your NASUWT colleague 2. Encourage members to attend rallies, arrange to meet up to get there 3. On days when others are on strike encourage sticker wearing, take photos to upload, encourage letter writing

  11. WHAT SHOULD REPS DO? • In the run up to the strike: a) Encourage members to take action, get a small team working on this b) Tell the head that all NUT and NASUWT members are called on to take action c) As soon as you are clear what your school is doing let your NUT division secretary know

  12. WHAT SHOULD REPS DO? 5) If your school pay policy or appraisal policy don’t meet our check list: • Discuss with members of NUT and NASUWT • Tell the head teacher members aren’t happy • Approach the Div Sec to talk to the head • Escalateto paid strike action Or – if there are other elements of our ASOS instructions that the school isn’t meeting

  13. WHAT SHOULD REPS DO? • Last but not least: Encourage new teachers and non members to join to NUT Note: Schools direct, Teach first can join free whilst on their training courses This is more important than ever because of lack of union contact at PGCE courses for Schools Direct etc

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