The National Education Union represents the majority of teachers and education professionals in the UK. It's time to #ValueEducation.
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On 28 February, we will launch an indicative ballot asking members if they would be prepared to strike over pay, funding and workload.
Chronic underfunding means fewer teaching assistants and larger classes.
Check your myNEU details are correct here 👉 NEUActivate.com
If this government won’t #SaveEducation, we will.
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It's always sad to see good colleagues leave - however in the case of Gillian we won't be shedding too many tears.
Her final act of failing to publish the STRB report and recommendation on teacher pay will not quickly be forgiven. #GE24 #ValueEducation
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🚨 The results are in! 🚨
In our ballot, @NEUnion members have voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise.
We have to save our schools.
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Today, the National Education Union has taken the difficult decision to advise its members in primary schools that it is unsafe to return to work on Monday. #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities. Click here for full statement: neu.org.uk/press-releases/ne…
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.@GillianKeegan we think you meant:
Every day, Government underfunding of our schools is causing disruption to our children’s education.
Children should not have to learn in crumbling buildings, in huge classes, taught by teachers not qualified in their subjects, without textbooks or other resources. I’m announcing I will properly engage with @NEUnion to solve the crisis in our schools. #ValueEducation
Last year, school strikes resulted in 25 million school days being lost cumulatively.
Children should not have to suffer a repeat of this disruption.
I’m announcing that we will introduce minimum service levels in schools so that pupils get the education they need and deserve.
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The pandemic is worsening hour by hour. @NEUnion has called an emergency executive meeting tomorrow. We will then issue new, urgent advice regarding the proposed opening of primary schools on 4 Jan. These developments will affect those returning to work on Monday #MakeSchoolsSafe
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Today we’ve written to @nadhimzahawi. If teachers don’t receive the above inflation pay increase they deserve, we will be balloting for industrial action.
It's time to #ValueEducation and #ValueEducators
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Four senior Government scientific advisers have just broken rank and spoken out about their concerns over school opening on 1 June.
Today, we have issued a call to Government to step back and stop wider school reopening.
Read more 👇
bit.ly/3gCJUc7
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20,000 teachers, lecturers and support staff across this country have joined our call to #closetheschools in event of a national lockdown in 1 hour. Join us now: actionnetwork.org/forms/clos…
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The @NEUnion consultative ballot on the Government's pay offer has been rejected by an overwhelming 98% of NEU teacher members in England on a turnout of 66%. #NEU2023 #SaveOurSchhols
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We've just run the numbers and 400,000 people watched our Zoom call. The strength of feeling of our members is clear. The biggest political online meeting in UK history.
#MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities
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Today we have written to Secretary of State @kitmalthouse to let him know we will moving to a formal strike ballot if teachers don’t get the fully funded pay rise they deserve. #Teachersdeservebetter #PayUp
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Over 50,000 teachers today calling on @GillianKeegan to fix the crisis in our schools #SaveOurSchools
ZDF Studio London
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"It will not surprise anyone to learn that Gavin Williamson's much derided period as education secretary was driven largely by pettiness. Today's revelation simply confirms what teachers and parents had always suspected - that Gavin Williamson prioritised point scoring over serious engagement with the representatives of hundreds of thousands of education workers about the best way of suppressing the spread of Covid-19 in schools." @DanielKebedeNEU
Read our full comment below.👇
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The average teacher works 48.7 hours per week. Our teachers are expected to do overtime without pay.
It is time for the government to #PayUp to #SaveOurShools.
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🧵We've just met with tens of thousands of members in England on Zoom about a pay offer from the Government.
We are beginning a consultation but are recommending our members REJECT this offer.
It’s just not good enough.
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On #marr @BorisJohnson just said schools are safe. The science says otherwise. #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities
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The Prime Minister wouldn’t #MakeSchoolsSafe so we did.
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.@GillianKeegan a good job?!🤔
On your Government’s watch, thousands of children are having their education disrupted at the start of a new academic year because of crumbling concrete and unsafe school buildings. The problem with RAAC has been known for years and it’s the tip of the iceberg.
It's time for you, your department and this Government to take responsibility for the crisis that’s developed on your watch and #ValueEducation
Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’
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.@Ofstednews should pause all its inspections and reflect upon the unmanageable and counter-productive stress they cause for school leaders, and the impact on leaders.
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Discrimination against transgender pupils is illegal under 2010 Equalities Act.
Schools should ignore the Attorney General’s advice and continue to treat their transgender pupils with the dignity and respect they are entitled to.
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Thank you to Alex for making this great sign!
Our members are out today to tell the government to #PayUp!
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If you have made your own placard for Wednesday please send it to us and we will share it. There’s a huge wave of support to #SaveOurSchools
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Union calls on PM to delay school reopenings and make public advice he has received on the risks of this dreadful disease.
Our members have a legal right to work in a safe environment.
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Great video here from @EstherMcVey1 showing the strength of our action today. It’s time to #SaveOurSchools @GillianKeegan. Get around the table with us you have our number 📞
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60,000 teachers and support staff have now supported our call to #CloseTheSchools. Thousands are signing every 15 minutes. Join our fight for teachers, support staff, parents and pupils actionnetwork.org/forms/clos…
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Educators deserve a fully funded, above inflation pay rise. @GillianKeegan needs to #PayUp and #SaveOurSchools
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We welcome the announcement today that teachers will be awarded a fully funded 5.5% pay award. This is a necessary first step in reversing the real terms cuts inflicted upon the profession over the last 14 years. #ValueEducators
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"We've ALWAYS funded schools at the right level!" says Gillian Keegan...
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Yet ceilings keep falling, teachers keep leaving and class sizes keep ballooning.
📺 NEU President Emma Rose and DGS Niamh Sweeney give her a piece of their mind.
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STATEMENT: We have agreed with @GillianKeegan to enter into a period of intensive talks with her and other education unions. The talks will focus on teacher pay, conditions and workload reduction. #SaveOurSchools
Full statement here:
neu.org.uk/press-releases/ed…
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🚨 The results are in! 🚨
In our ballot, NEU members have voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.
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We have now hit 100,000 Facebook Likes, with a huge surge in the last 24 hours and millions of people seeing our posts. Members and parents please follow us on social media so we can #MakeSchoolsSafe and #ProtectCommunities
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Unfortunately the @DailyMailUK took the political decision to reject our full page advert in their newspaper and have said we can’t advertise.
But you can support the NEU campaign here: actionnetwork.org/forms/supp…
Below is the ad they wouldn't run.
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We express sincere and deep condolences to Ruth Perry’s family and friends and to her colleagues. Headteachers like Ruth face significant workloads and intense scrutiny and accountability pressures. Ruth will have made such a difference to many students and to her community.
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WATCH: @LoyleCarner stands with the striking teachers who lifted him up and saved him.
Thank you @LoyleCarner for your support at Glastonbury. And thanks to your mum and your girlfriend for the work they do for their pupils.
It’s time for @GillianKeegan to #doyourjobgill and #saveourschools
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STATEMENT: This afternoon we’ve announced two new strikes on 5th and 7th July. It’s time for @GillianKeegan to #SaveOurSchools
More details here: neu.org.uk/latest/press-rele…
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Over 135,000 teaching and support staff have backed our call to close schools and colleges. Over 10 million people have seen our social media, 1000 new members have joined the union and 10,000 people have written to their MP in 1 hour.
We are the NEU.
#putschoolsinthelockdown
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Hi @AndrewMarr9 our message to the country is that our members love teaching but it must be online. 170,000 parents & staff have backed our position. At 11am will be the biggest online political meeting with over 25,000 registered. #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities #marr
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Schools shouldn't be expected to fund pay rises from their budgets. They must be fully funded.
We will be striking on Tues, 2 May.
Get strike ready here👉 NEUActivate.com
@GillianKeegan, there's still time to come back to the table with a better offer. #SaveOurSchools
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SIGN OUR PETITION: We must #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities
Join our joint call with @unisontheunion now.
actionnetwork.org/forms/make…
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Education is in crisis in this country. It’s about saving our schools. We don’t want to strike but as teachers in London, South East and South West go on strike today it’s clear we have to take a stand, as the Government won’t. #SaveOurSchools
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Hi @GillianKeegan an NEU member has made a placard about the situation! Time to #SaveOurSchools
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No @MattHancock on #Marr, the Prime Minister @BorisJohnson was not right to say schools were safe.
How on earth do you explain this from the ONS?
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📺WATCH: Rain pours into a classroom in a school in Wandsworth because there is no money to repair the roof. The teacher told us the room has flooded a number of times in recent years.
Children shouldn’t be dodging raindrops while trying to learn - this situation is urgent.
We’re calling on Government to commit an extra £4.4bn every year to upgrade school buildings.
Sign our petition here. 👉valueeducation.org.uk/buildi…
#ValueEducation
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When schools were reopened after the spring lockdown, one in 1,000 people were infected with coronavirus. Currently, that figure stands at one in 55.
We all want schools open, but #OnlyWhenItsSafe
+ Safe for children
+ Safe for staff
+ Safe for families
+ Safe for communities
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Our Executive is meeting this morning and we will announce new guidance shortly afterwards. Over 10,000 members have registered for our Zoom briefings this weekend and tomorrow morning's 11am briefing will be live streamed on social media. #MakeSchoolsSafe #ProtectCommunities
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When @GillianKeegan says the NEU is just Kevin and Mary show her this. 50,000 teachers standing up to fight the crisis in our schools #SaveOurSchools
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Today 300,000 teachers are on strike once again.
It’s time for @GillianKeegan to publish the STRB and get around the table and talk
👉👉👉share or like if you’re with us
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400,000 was the total 😱😱😱😱😱
Currently 70,000 @NEUnion members in a Zoom call. Can’t wait for the article in the Guardian on how TUC unions are modernising and using digital to organise and mobilise.
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45,000 teachers and support staff have now supported our call to #CloseTheSchools in 3 hours. Join us in our fight for teachers, support staff, parents and children: actionnetwork.org/forms/clos…
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Today’s announcement that all pupils will return to English schools on 8 March demonstrates, again, that Boris Johnson has, despite all his words of caution, failed to learn the lessons of his previous mistakes. #MakeSchoolsSafe
Read our full comment👇
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Today as 300,000 teachers go on strike to #SaveOurSchools this is why.
👉 Share or like if you’re with us.
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We demand better from Government – for ourselves, our pupils and the profession.
Our next strike days will be:
▶️ 27 April
▶️ 02 May
#NEU2023 #SaveOurSchools
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Today 300,000 teachers in England are on strike because education is in crisis.
Teachers work more unpaid overtime than any other profession.
@GillianKeegan must come to the table and #SaveOurSchools
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Our members are disappointed in your insulting pay offer @RishiSunak. That's why they voted overwhelmingly to reject it. We need a much better offer to end this dispute! #PayUp #SaveOurSchools
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the pay offer made to teachers was "very reasonable" and calls the newly announced strikes by the National Education Union as "very disappointing."
#skynews
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Despite our efforts, Govt has shown no understanding of just how serious the situation in education is. Our members need a fully-funded pay rise.
We will be taking strike action on 27 April and 2 May.
Get strike day ready at 👉 NEUActivate.com
#SaveOurSchools #PayUp
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Solidarity to our sisters and brothers in the @pcs_union, striking for fair pay, pensions and job security.
We stand with you. ✊
bit.ly/3MCFTqO
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NEU statement on @educationgovuk teacher pay deal. With inflation at 11%, a 5% pay offer is, in fact, a pay cut. We have no choice but to hold the biggest ballot of teachers for a generation. We must #ValueEducators.
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Teachers want to teach. They want the best for the children they teach. But they also want to be safe and want their communities to be safe. The evidence says this isn't the case. #CloseTheSchools. Back our call: actionnetwork.org/forms/clos…
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In our ballot, @NEUnion members voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.
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Schools shouldn't be expected to fund pay rises from their budgets. Pay rises must be fully-funded.
We will be taking strike action on 27 April & 2 May.
Get strike ready👉 NEUActivate.com
@GillianKeegan, there's still time to come back to the table with a better offer.
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More and more people realise that we must include schools and colleges in the lockdown. Our campaign to amend the bill in Parliament has now reached 150,000 signatures and 20,000 have written to their MP.
#PutSchoolsInTheLockdown
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There are no negotiations and @GillianKeegan refuses to release the pay review body report going as far as to refuse an FOI because it’s apparently not in the public interest.
This is why teachers are strike today because we have to #SaveOurSchools
👉If you’re with us like or share this post.
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The #COVID19 variant is a threat to education.
Testing won't be in place by Jan 4, @NEUnion is calling for 3 steps:
💻 Move learning Online for first 2 weeks of Jan
🏥 Public Health to set up testing for those 2 weeks
💉 Begin vaccinating education staff
piped.video/YBmG0SPrN5s
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Don’t make us use our teacher voice, Isabel!
Firstly, teachers were striking following a legal ballot and secondly, showing children you have to stand up for what you believe in sets an excellent example.
#SaveOurSchools
Striking teachers set a terrible example to children. Walking out in a strop because things aren't quite as you want them to be is no approach to working life!
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.@educationgovuk data released show on average the rate of Covid-19 infection is 1.9 times higher amongst primary & secondary teachers than the general population, & 2 times higher for special school teachers.
Read our full comment
bit.ly/35UzfWp
#MakeSchoolsSafe
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Spot on here from @GNev2!
The secondary assessment system is not fit for purpose. Teachers and parents agree that one-off end-of-course exams do not properly prepare students for life after school or college.
Learn more about @NEUnion's campaign here 👉 bit.ly/3QD3uti #alevelresultsday
Gary Neville: "I have a different belief around exams. I don't believe you should work for 16 years at school & college & then it all depends on a 2 hour assessment... I think that's prehistoric... it needs ripping up & you should be judged over your body of work."
#BBCBreakfast
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🚨🚨🚨PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨🚨 "Children have one chance for childhood. This General Election, we have one chance to say enough poverty, enough austerity, enough cuts. One chance for childhood. One chance to vote. Use yours wisely." #valueeducation #voteeducation #generaleection2019
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Dear current Government,
Please don’t employ experts to review what you should be paying us and then ignore them when, surprise, surprise, they find that you should be paying more than you’re willing to pay.
Your last pay offer was an insult to us hardworking professionals.
Last week we took to the streets again in our tens of thousands as we continue to let the public know about the crisis in education.
We will not back down until we get what we deserve.
#DoYourJobGill #PayUpNow #SaveOurSchools
Thank you.
Our re-ballot is still open – vote now.
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The scientists said that schools must be included in the lockdown for it to work and the Government said no. This political decision puts kids, parents and staff at risk.
#PutSchoolsInTheLockdown
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Join the 85,000 teachers and support staff who have joined our call to #CloseTheSchools. We are on the side of the teaching profession, parents and children. actionnetwork.org/forms/clos…
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Big news: The British Medical Association writes to the NEU.
The BMA notes the “publication of your 5 tests, and we stand in full support of you”.
Thank you @TheBMA
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If you want to schools to open when it’s safe, then have a look at our #fivetests.
If you agree with them, then please tweet them to your MP asking them to support.
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This is what a large number teachers striking over the crisis in our schools looks like outside the @educationgovuk
@GillianKeegan and @RishiSunak publish the STRB and get around the table #SaveOurSchools
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The pay offer from Govt was an insult to hardworking teachers and failed to acknowledge the crisis in education.
Today and on 2 May, @NEUnion members are striking for a fully funded pay rise.
Send a short message/video of support via link in bio.
#SaveOurSchools #PayUp
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300,000 teachers are on strike today. Education is in crisis. @GillianKeegan please #SaveOurSchools
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Tomorrow morning this advert will appear in over 20 newspapers. Over 1 million people have viewed the advert on @tiktok_uk in the last 3 hours. We are taking our message to the country. #SaveOurSchools
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🚨 The results are in! 🚨
In our ballot, @NEUnion members voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.
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[1 of 6] Today @IndependentSage released the science that confirms teachers, parents and schools have been right on wider reopening of schools.
It's not safe to open schools on 1 June.
Email your MP now: neu.org.uk/write-your-mp
#FollowTheScience #Covid19 #OnlyWhenItsSafe
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WOW! This is amazing! 40,000 educators have joined the @NEUnion since we announced our strike action.
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Schools are safe says @BorisJohnson on #Marr. The science says the complete opposite.
If the Prime Minister of our country won't #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities then the 450,000 strong NEU will.
Support us now.
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Thanks to @sadiqkhan @georgiagould @londoncouncils and all those who lobbied for the Government to do the right thing in London. Now @GavinWilliamson must delay school opening nationwide to reduce transmission, support our NHS and #protectourcommunities
NEW: The Government have finally seen sense and u-turned. All primary schools across London will be treated the same.
This is the right decision - and I want to thank education minister Nick Gibb for our constructive conversations over the past two days. theguardian.com/education/20…
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“You have cut funding, you’ve cut budgets in school, we can’t recruit teachers, we can’t recruit teaching assistants. You have cut local services to the bone.”
👏 Well done to this #BBCQT audience member, taking Government to task #SaveOurSchools
“You have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?”
This #bbcqt audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the government’s performance, saying she’s “staggered” at the gap between the audience and the panel
bit.ly/3Zt4wZF
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We are calling for the bill presented to Parliament this week to be amended to include the closure of schools and colleges in the lockdown.
Write to your MP and tweet at them now:
actionnetwork.org/letters/cl…
#putschoolsinthelockdown
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Today, Govt has offered a 6.5% pay rise for teachers with extra money for schools and action to tackle workload.
Our executive has decided to recommend to members that they accept the offer.
Your hard work and strength have got us to this point. Now we need to know what you think.
Read more here. 👉 neu.org.uk/campaigns/pay-cam…
#PayUpNow #SaveOurSchool
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Dreadful. The views of education staff who actually work in education not mentioned once on #marr.
Well we are 450,000 strong and aren't going anywhere. Join us at 11am for the biggest online political meeting in history.
#MakeSchoolsSafe
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Blair Peach was killed on this day in 1979 on an anti-racist demonstration by the police. He was a teacher and a proud trade union activist in East London NUT. @NEUnion remembers him in our continued fight against racism and fascism today and every day.
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