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Teachers launch fight for higher pay at London rally
Over 70 people came to a pay rally for NEU union members in London on Thursday of last week.
Teachers meet to discuss their campaign over pay
NEU union members in London planned a pay rally
UCU congress to reflect a transformed union after an historic year
The University and College Union (UCU) will hold its annual congress in Manchester this week.
Victory at Avenue school as academy plan is pushed back - but the fight continues
Workers and parents at Avenue school in east London scored a victory this week after school bosses retreated on an academy plan.
Parents, children and striking teachers protest at academies show
Demonstrators chanted, “Education, not privatisation,” and, “Our schools are not for sale.”
Teachers’ pay rebellion spreads across Oklahoma with second week of strikes
Teachers in the US state of Oklahoma began their second week of walkouts on Monday. They are striking for more pay and better education funding.
Teachers must push pay fight after NUT conference
03 April 2018Teachers could be heading for a national strike ballot over pay. Delegates at the NUT union conference in Brighton last weekend passed a motion calling on the union to launch a “vigorous campaign” over pay.
Teachers at union conference support Palestine, oppose Islamophobia and defend Jeremy Corbyn
01 April 2018Anti-racism was a big theme of NUT teachers’ union conference this week
Acton high school out for two days
27 March 2018NEU union members at Acton High school in west London began a two-day strike on Tuesday. Workers are in dispute over three issues – bullying, management’s response to behaviour issues and a planned takeover by Ark.
Welcome to strike country - inside the spreading US teachers' strikes
27 March 2018An inspirational fight by West Virginia teachers has inspired teachers and other public sector workers
NUT conference - union must fight now to stop Tory attacks on education
27 March 2018The final annual conference of the National Union of Teachers takes place in Brighton over Easter weekend.
Pay fight at school in Waltham Forest
13 March 2018Workers at Connaught School for Girls in north east London struck on Tuesday in an escalating dispute over pay
US pay fight spreads after West Virginia teachers’ strike wins
13 March 2018Powerful action by workers in West Virginia has inspired others to fight back
West Virginia school workers reject deal agreed by union leaders and continue strike
01 March 2018Teachers and other public school workers in the US state of West Virginia have rejected a pay and conditions deal designed to get them back to work
Education workers out on strike in battle against academy plans
08 February 2018Workers at Cumberland School in Newham struck today against a plan to turn their school into an academy. Upbeat strikers chanted, “Our school is not for sale,” and, “Whose school? Our school,” on the picket line.
Avenue School strike in Newham opposes academy
31 January 2018Teachers and other school workers struck at Avenue Primary. It was the NEU members’ first of two days of strike action, an escalation from the previous one day strikes.
Well-supported strike at The Cumberland School in Newham says no to academies
09 January 2018The first strike at The Cumberland School in Newham, east London, against academisation saw over 50 NEU education union members picketing on Tuesday.
LETTERS: I was hounded over Trojan Horse and it still hurts today
11 December 2017I was the only teacher to be found guilty as a result of the Trojan Horse allegations in Birmingham. It was one of the most politicised cases in education the country has ever seen.
Parents, children and teachers united against academies
05 December 2017The first strike day against academisation at Avenue School in Newham, east London, took place on Wednesday of last week. Also: Reports from Charlton Park Academy in Greenwich, the Village School in Brent and Westways Primary School in Sheffield
School strikers at Charlton Park Academy are sick of penny-pinching bosses
14 November 2017GMB and NEU union members struck at Charlton Park Academy in Greenwich, south east London, last Tuesday and Thursday, to defend their sick pay.
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