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Teacher Workload

NUT Campaign on Workload & Performance Management organisation, negotiation, action… nationally organised, locally determined. Teacher Workload. Reps were asked to identify the main issues raised with them Workload 74% Pupil Behaviour 47% Pay & pensions 41% Health & Safety 32%.

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Teacher Workload

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  1. NUT Campaign on Workload & Performance Managementorganisation, negotiation, action…nationally organised, locally determined

  2. Teacher Workload Reps were asked to identify the main issues raised with them • Workload 74% • Pupil Behaviour 47% • Pay & pensions 41% • Health & Safety 32%

  3. Teacher Union responses Early 2002 Joint Conference motions on workload Joint action and guidelines Late 2002 NASUWT/ATL/SHA/NAHT/PAT Social Partnership leading to January 2003 Remodelling Agreement /“Workload Agreement” & withdrawal of action guidelines NUT Refusal to accept “strings” – exclusion from talks Reinforcement of “beating back bureaucracy” guidelines

  4. “The Workload Agreement”– a price too high • Obliging unions to “promote and promulgate outcomes of “ social partnership” • Compromising ability to campaign on other issues • Undermining teacher professionalism • Undermining teachers’ posts/job descriptions • Fake workload reduction measures

  5. Not only too high a price – not worth having! Office of Manpower Economics Report into 2006 workload • “no statistically significant reduction in teachers’ working time” • Time spent teaching reduced by 18 minutes a week for some, increased for most

  6. “Social Partnership” A top down approach to teacher trade unionism • identity of interest between Government, employers and workers’ organisations • seeks “partnership agreements” through negotitaion (excluding non-partners) • imposes duty to “promote and promulgate” the results • Born out of a decline in union activism, reflected in “European Union Social Model” • Examples – workload agreement, RIG, Performance Management regulations, “teachers’ duties”

  7. The Organising Culture A membership led approach to teacher trade unionism • Members’ priorities determine union positions, policy and action • Leadership is accountable to members not vice-versa • Negotiations reflect members priorities • Negotiations backed by active campaigning • Organisation and activity by members in schools and LA services are our source of strength • Examples – pensions, defence of QTS, MAs to TLRs, workload, SATs

  8. Blair’s “Public Service Reform” Taken directly from the PM’s No 10 strategy unit, July 2006 • Top down performance management (pressure from government) • The introduction of greater competition and contestability in the provision of public services • The introduction of greater pressure from citizens including through choice and voice • Measures to strengthen the capability and capacity of civil and public servants and of central and local government to deliver improved public services

  9. What’s it mean for our campaign? • The organising culture approach requires and informed, organised, active membership • The Social Partnership approach requires a loyal, acquiescent membership • The Government strategy is to fragment education, divide school from school - and to increasingly give more power to governing bodies • Where we are well organised and active, we will win. Where we are not, we have a real problem… • It’s not a fair world, and the meek do not inherit it…

  10. The big picture context • The Education Act as one of Blair’s pieces of “legacy legislation” • The end of the systematic delivery of state education • The establishment of autonomous educational establishments – schools & colleges • The developing ownership and/or control of these by the private and voluntary sectors • Preparation for full-blown GATS style privatisation • The testing of unions’… abilities to resist nationally – and locally openness to “corporatism” & “Social Partnership”

  11. The Workload campaign is the immediate test! We need… • The NUT, organised, active, determined • A challenge to the other teacher unions • The support of non-teacher unions, parents, governors, Local Authorities • The isolation of those governing bodies and Local Authorities that stand against us • Resolute, nationally organised, locally determined action • New levels of support and strategy to build strong school groups

  12. “A good local school for every child”? • Publicly funded, state, comprehensive education • No fragmentation, marketisation, privatisation • Properly qualified staff – teaching and non-teaching • Proper remuneration in terms of nationally agreed pay & pensions, with no ‘payment by results’ • The provision of high quality CPD for all staff • No excessive workloads – proper time to do our jobs for the children in our schools and services • Educationally acceptable class sizes

  13. Performance Management • Schools will have to consult staff & Unions in the New Year and during the Summer Term on a procedure for Performance Management. • NUT groups will be able to use the Union guidelines in this consultation.

  14. NUT successes so far • Implementation delayed to September 2007 • No link with pay on main pay scale: current arrangements still apply.

  15. Performance Management NUT guidelines cover • Who does the observations • Number of reviewees per reviewer • Number of observations • Number of targets/objectives • Nature of targets • Automatic pay progression on main scale • Maintaining “substantial & sustained” rule on UPS

  16. Workload • The guidelines identify a range of issues • School groups need to identify the key issues for them • School groups are able to use the guidelines to demand and negotiate improvements

  17. Workload Areas covered include: • PPA time • Meetings • Planning • Class size • Assessment

  18. Supporting school groups • Where school groups are unsuccessful in getting NUT policy implemented they will be supported by the Union • The Union will ballot members for strike action where heads & governors will not implement our guidelines.

  19. Opportunities • This ballot gives us the opportunity to build the NUT at school level – the basis of an organising culture • Members will be able to exercise their collective voice – an injury to one is an injury to all

  20. The NUT • The NUT is the only Union taking these steps to reduce workload • The NUT is the largest teaching union in Europe.

  21. VOTE YES! • Assert your collective voice • If you’re not a member, demand your union joins the campaign • If they won’t, join the NUT • Use the campaign to win workload reduction AND make the union strong in every school and workplace

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