NEU

Reports round-up

About 180 workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria began a ten-day strike over pay on Sunday.

John Roan battle rages on

The NEU union members are fighting a plan to turn the school into an academy.

Education round up: College strikes see results in London

College strikes are forcing bosses to make improved offers to workers on pay and conditions.

Teachers test support for a boycott of the hated Sats

Activists in the NEU union are organising in advance of an indicative ballot for a boycott of Sats in primary schools.

The Sats don’t work - they just make things worse

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party will scrap the hated Sats school tests. Sadie Robinson spoke to people about why they should go now

NEU delegates back fight

Delegates backed motions to ballot for a boycott of the hated Sats tests and for more action on pay

Teachers demand union fights for a pay rise

16 April 2019
NEU union conference delegates backed a fight for a pay rise of at least 5 percent following years of real terms pay cuts.

Left learns lessons from US teachers at union conference

16 April 2019
Activists launched a new left group within the NEU at the union’s annual conference.

Education round up: Union says celebrate LGBT+ in schools

16 April 2019
The NEU union conference passed an emergency motion in defence of LGBT+ inclusive relationship and sex (RSE) education.

Cuts force teachers to ‘scrabble’ for resources

16 April 2019
Savage attacks on school funding were a dominant theme at the NEU education union’s first annual conference in Liverpool this week.

Industrial round-up - three colleges in pay fight

16 April 2019
Workers at three colleges struck last week over pay.

Inaugural NEU union conference set to tackle education under attack

09 April 2019
The first NEU union conference takes place in Liverpool next week. The NEU school workers’ union was formed by a merger of the NUT and ATL unions.

Workers at three West Midlands colleges fight back for better pay

09 April 2019
Workers at three West Midlands colleges are striking this week over pay. UCU union members at City of Wolverhampton College began a three-day strike on Monday.

Education round-up: Cambridge march to defy school cutbacks

02 April 2019
Some 700 parents, children, teachers and governors turned out in Cambridge after school on Monday to protest about school funding cuts.

School workers strike to stop academy

19 March 2019
NEU union members at Galliard School in north London struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

School strikes to stop academy plans

26 February 2019

Strikes over academy scam plan in Enfield

05 February 2019
NEU union members at Galliard Primary School in Enfield, north London, were set to start a two-day strike on Wednesday this week.

Education round-up—Say no to the new offer for Scotland’s teachers

29 January 2019
Scottish teachers in the EIS union are balloting on a new pay offer, with a recommendation to reject.

Hundreds on streets against Barclay academy

29 January 2019
Trade Unionists and Labour councillors joined parents, students and teachers at a protest against the threatened academisation of the Barclay school in Stevenage last Saturday.