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Reports round-up: sacked porter reinstated as workers bite back
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Reports round-up: sacked porter reinstated as workers bite back

Also: New DHL Arcadia warehouse walkout | UCU election | Unison women's conference | Fascist EDL returns to Rotherham | Tube strike over jobs displacement | Teaching unions ballot on merger | Protest premieres in Leicester Square | Dpac defends care packages in Southampton
21 February 2017
Durham TAs' strikes force council into retreat—but union officials call off action
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Durham TAs’ strikes force council into retreat—but union officials call off action

Durham teaching assistants (TAs) have forced council bosses to retreat. But a chance for a clear cut victory was snatched away from them by union officials.
06 December 2016
'We won't be bullied'—meet the women standing up to Labour in County Durham
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‘We won’t be bullied’—meet the women standing up to Labour in County Durham

County Durham teaching assistants are battling against the odds—and pushing their union officials—to take the fight to a Labour council trying to slash their pay. Raymie Kiernan spoke to the women leading the fight
29 November 2016
Durham teaching assistants' strike grows as Labour council shows contempt
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Durham teaching assistants’ strike grows as Labour council shows contempt

Some 2,000 teaching assistants in the Unison and ATL unions began a second 48-hour walkout yesterday, Wednesday.
24 November 2016
Teachers should vote for one bigger union
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Teachers should vote for one bigger union

The NUT and ATL teaching unions are holding conferences in London on Saturday to debate and vote on plans to merge.
01 November 2016
Baseline tests for four year olds are unfair and inaccurate, teachers' survey shows
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Baseline tests for four year olds are unfair and inaccurate, teachers’ survey shows

An overwhelming majority of teachers think new tests for four year olds are unfair or inaccurate, according to a survey. And many say the tests are an excuse for the Tories to attack teachers and push the market in education.
12 February 2016
Small Heath school strikes halt academy as fight for union rep continues
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Solidarity pours in for Birmingham teachers striking to defend victimised union rep

Teachers at Birmingham’s Small Heath School began a three-day strike today, Tuesday, in an increasingly bitter dispute with school bosses.
09 February 2016
Small Heath School teachers step up strikes and defend victimised union rep
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Small Heath School teachers step up strikes and defend victimised union rep

Teachers gathered outside Birmingham's Small Heath School today, Tuesday, as NUT union members began a three-day strike following similar action last week.
26 January 2016
Parents join picket lines to show support for Small Heath school strikers
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Parents join picket lines to show support for Small Heath school strikers

NUT union members at Birmingham’s Small Heath school struck for a second day today, Wednesday, and NASUWT union members joined them.
20 January 2016
Singing pickets in Small Heath defend their school and their rep
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Singing pickets in Small Heath defend their school and their rep

Teachers at Birmingham’s Small Heath school began a three-day strike today, Tuesday, to stop their school becoming an academy.
19 January 2016
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Strike beats Alfreton Grange school bosses

NUT union members at Alfreton Grange academy in North Derbyshire have won over working conditions.
15 December 2015
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Education round-up

Teachers at Tech City in Islington, north London, began a two-day strike on Tuesday of this week.
08 December 2015
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Fourth united strike rocks Small Heath school bosses

Teachers at Small Heath school in Birmingham struck on Wednesday of last week. It was workers’ fourth strike in their battle to stop the school becoming an academy.
24 November 2015
Solid strike at Small Heath school
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Small Heath teachers strike again

Teachers in the NUT, NASUWT and ATL unions at Small Heath School in Birmingham were set to strike on Wednesday of next week.
17 November 2015
Solid strike at Small Heath school
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Solid strike at Small Heath school

Teachers at Small Heath School in Birmingham struck on Tuesday of this week against plans to turn the school into an academy.
20 October 2015
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Education round-up

Birmingham strike to stop academy, Open University protests, students defend grants, lobby to defend Esol, occupation at Soas
13 October 2015
Solidarity gives strength to Small Heath anti-academy strike
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Solidarity gives strength to Small Heath anti-academy strike

Strikers shut Small Heath school in Birmingham on Wednesday of last week in protest at plans to turn it into an academy. The walkout involved ATL, NASUWT and NUT union members.
19 May 2015
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St Andrew’s & St Francis school teachers to strike over academy plans

Teachers were set to strike against academies at a west London school on Wednesday of this week.
21 April 2015
No to academies in Brent
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No to academies in Brent

Teachers at St Andrew and St Francis School in Brent, west London, began a two-day strike on Tuesday of this week.
24 March 2015
Teachers strike against academy plans for school in Brent
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Teachers strike against academy plans for school in Brent

Teachers at St Andrews and St Francis School in Brent struck today, Wednesday, against plans to turn the school into an academy.
18 March 2015
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Schools round-up

Teachers at St Joseph’s Catholic Academy in Hebburn, south Tyneside, struck on Tuesday and Thursday of last week.
24 June 2014
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Anti-Acadamies Alliance AGM

More than 50 people attended the Anti Academies Alliance AGM. 
28 January 2014
Round up: Strikes and protests in schools and colleges
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Round up: Strikes and protests in schools and colleges

Strike at Copland Community School, Wembley | Strike at Abbey School, Rotherham | Strike at Dukeries Academy, Nottingham | Strike at Gateway Sixth Form College, Leicester | Strike at Birchgrove Comprehensive School, Swansea | Protest against Michael Gove at Marling School, Stroud | Meeting of NUT union executive
14 January 2014
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School strikes back to stop an academy

Teachers at Copland Community School in Brent, north west London, were set to strike on Wednesday of this week.
02 July 2013