Showing posts with label NUT. ATL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NUT. ATL. Show all posts
Thursday 24 March 2016
Tuesday 13 May 2014
ARK intransigence provokes Copland strike over compulsory redundancies
The teaching unions (NUT, NAUWT, ATL at Copland Community School have sent the following notice. Copland is due to be forced to be academised and taken over by Ark later this year.
The three
teacher unions at Copland Community School in Wembley will be taking strike action
again this Wednesday over threatened compulsory redundancies. Two teachers face
losing their jobs. The current Headteacher, Richard Marshall and the Unions
have been meeting on a weekly basis with the joint aim of preventing this
occurring. These negotiations have significantly reduced the original number of
proposed compulsory redundancies as well as agreed very useful proposals on how
to prevent the loss of the remaining two jobs. These include covering a
maternity leave and extending the deadline for compulsory redundancies until
December. It is well documented that there is a turn over of staff when a
school converts to an academy.
But ARK,
who are seeking to take over the school in September, have refused to
agree to
any of these proposals.
ARK, known
for their anti union stance, are prepared to see the school closed rather than negotiate,
are prepared to see the pupils education disrupted. The teachers will be on the
picket line again on Wednesday from 7.30 am showing their collective anger at
this stance.
Tom Stone,
NASUWT Secretary said, “I find the intransigence of the ARK management in not
agreeing any of these eminently sensible proposals, unbelievable. We have had
weekly meeting with the aim of preventing any redundancies. ARK is prepared to
disrupt the children's education when such a small step would solve this
situation.
Hank
Roberts, ATL said, “If ARK do take over the running of the school in the autumn
this does not bode well for the staff or pupils. The children's education has
already suffered too much without sacking their teachers.”
Lesley
Gouldbourne, NUT said, “We have been working so hard to prevent any strike action.
Yet even when we and the school come up with an effective proposal, ARK refuses
to agree. It is outrageous that this is allowed to happen when they are not
even running the school.”
The
teachers are planning to strike again on May 21st if there
is not agreement to prevent these compulsory redundancies.
Labels:
ARK,
ARK Academy,
Copland Community School,
NASUWT,
NUT. ATL,
redundancies
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly for a Campaign of Strikes on Pensions
Teachers in England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action against government plans to cut their pensions.
Ballot results released this afternoon for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the National Union of Teachers reflect a high level of anger and resistance.
83% of the ATL voted for a campaign of strikes and the NUT was even higher at 92%/
This is especially significant for the ATL as this is its first ever national strike ballot.
Together with the NUT this result represents the majority of school teachers in England and Wales, in both the state maintained and independent sectors.
Both organisations will now consider these results at meetings in the next two days.
NUT National Executive Member Nick Grant said:
Unless the government makes an immediate and fundamental reversal of its plans to make us pay more, and work longer to get less pension in retirement, strike action will start with one day's stoppage on 30 June.We also expect colleagues in the University and College Union and the PCS civil servants to join us on strike that day."
We call on everyone who is angry about the unjustified attacks on public services and its workforce to join us on the day at a march and rally from Lincolns Inn Fields, Holborn at 11.30am to go via Whitehall to Westminster for a rally.
This is a fight for the future of properly funded and accountable public services. And it is a fight which is only just beginning
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Academy staff vote to strike against proposed redundancies
Staff at Crest Girls Academy in Brent were shocked to hear that 21 staff redundancies were being proposed. At an emergency joint unions meeting last Thursday, 79 staff (with 3 against) voted for strike action in the event that the current "business plan", which basically means the redundancy of 21 staff members, goes ahead.
Crest Girls is run by the academy group E-ACT and last year Crest Boys took successful strike action to prevent any compulsory redundancies at their academy.
A group from Crest Girls joined by other anti academy campaigners and ATL, NASUWT and NUT union officers from Redbridge who face E-ACT academies there, had a demonstration outside E-ACT's HQ in London. E-ACT were left in no doubt the strength of feeling felt at Crest Girls and particularly in the circumstances where their Director General (!) Sir Bruce Liddington earns over £265,000 plus bonuses per year.
Crest Girls is run by the academy group E-ACT and last year Crest Boys took successful strike action to prevent any compulsory redundancies at their academy.
A group from Crest Girls joined by other anti academy campaigners and ATL, NASUWT and NUT union officers from Redbridge who face E-ACT academies there, had a demonstration outside E-ACT's HQ in London. E-ACT were left in no doubt the strength of feeling felt at Crest Girls and particularly in the circumstances where their Director General (!) Sir Bruce Liddington earns over £265,000 plus bonuses per year.
Labels:
Children's Strikes.,
Crest academy,
E-ACT,
NUT. ATL
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