Nationwide Schooling Union members working in 34 sixth kind faculties or 16-19 academies can be taking an extra day of strike motion on Thursday 27 February to demand extra funding for his or her faculties.
Many will attend a rally at Parliament Sq. in Westminster, adopted by a march to the Division for Schooling. A photograph alternative can be supplied by an open-top bus and strikers holding sandwich boards detailing cuts to their school.
The NEU is in dispute with the Secretary of State and in search of improved pay, circumstances and employment via higher funding for 16-19 schooling.
There’s at the moment an total shortfall of at the very least £700 million in funding for Put up 16 Schooling which the NEU desires to see rectified within the forthcoming Price range.
Assemble: Parliament Sq. SW1P 3JX
Time: 13.00-13.45
Audio system: Kevin Courtney (Joint Normal Secretary, NEU), Dr Mary Bousted (Joint Normal Secretary, NEU), Jean Evanson (NEU Nationwide Govt member for post-16) and extra TBC.
March: 14.00-14.10
Vacation spot: Division for Schooling, Sanctuary Buildings, 20 Nice Smith Road, SW1P 3BT. Hand-in and speeches till 15.00.
Commenting forward of the strike and rally, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint Normal Secretary of the Nationwide Schooling Union, mentioned: “16-19 schooling has suffered brutally beneath successive Conservative governments, and the funding will increase introduced earlier than the Election fall at the very least £700m brief of what’s wanted. The trajectory is unchanged: jobs are being minimize, class sizes are rising, and pay is falling. Putting is all the time a final resort however our members know that the way forward for the sector is at menace and it’s college students’ schooling that may proceed to endure.”
Within the current NEU sixth kind faculties poll, which closed on 16 September, 25 faculties handed the 50% turnout threshold allowing strike motion beneath commerce union legislation. General, 84% of members voted Sure to motion and Sure to saving the sixth kind sector on a 43% turnout.
As well as, a re-ballot of 16 faculties – which closed on four November – noticed 9 extra faculties cross the 50% turnout threshold beneath commerce union legislation.
The next faculties will participate in Wednesday’s motion: Bilborough Faculty, Nottingham; Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Kind Faculty; Cheadle and Marple Sixth Kind Faculty, Stockport; Metropolis & Islington Sixth Kind Faculty; Esher Faculty; Hereford Sixth Kind Faculty; Hills Street Sixth Kind Faculty, Cambridge; King Edward VI Faculty Stourbridge; Lengthy Street Sixth Kind Faculty, Cambridge; Longley Park Sixth Kind Faculty, Sheffield; Newham Sixth Kind Faculty; Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Kind Faculty, Leeds; Priestley Faculty, Warrington; Reigate Faculty; Richard Huish Faculty, Taunton; Shrewsbury Faculties Group; Sir George Monoux Faculty, Waltham Forest, London; St Brendan’s Sixth Kind Faculty, Bristol; St Francis Xavier Sixth Kind Faculty, Clapham, London; St John Rigby RC Sixth Kind Faculty, Wigan; The Brooke Home Sixth Kind Faculty, Hackney, London; The Sixth Kind Faculty Solihull; Varndean Faculty, Brighton; Gateway Sixth Kind Faculty, Leicester; WQE and Regent Faculty Group, Leicester; Ashton Sixth Kind Faculty, Ashton-under-Lyne; Coulsdon Sixth Kind Faculty; Havering Sixth Kind Faculty; King Edward VI Faculty, Nuneaton; Peter Symonds Faculty, Winchester; Queen Elizabeth Sixth Kind Faculty, Darlington; The Blackpool Sixth Kind Faculty; Thomas Rotherham Faculty, Rotherham; Xaverian Faculty, Manchester.
Commercial
Author: ” — www.fenews.co.uk “