Pay Campaign

A big THANKYOU to all school reps and members who helped make the day of action a big success.The march and rally in Bristol on the 24th April was attended by an estimated 3000 teachers.

We were blessed with fine weather. It was great to meet members from primary and secondary Gloucestershire schools.The Union is calling on members to continue the campaign by:-

-Writing to your MPs using the electronic lobbying facility on the website;
-Going to see your MPs at constituency surgeries;
-Raising the Union’s campaign with local councillors;
-Signing forthcoming petitions and getting colleagues in other unions to sign as well;
-Publicising the TUC’s lobby of Parliament being held on Monday 9th June—if you want to attend, let us know
-Discussing pay and workload with colleagues
Writing to local papers and keeping the issue in the news

Go to local union meetings and let the union know your views!!!
Interestingly, in the days before the strike the Union was inundated with applications for membership.
Should the Executive decide to call for further strike action another ballot will be needed.

The National Union of Teachers is the only union which takes into membership qualified teachers (and those on courses training to become teachers) exclusively. All the other classroom teacher unions include non teachers, which affects their focus. The Gloucestershire Association of the National Union of Teachers serves its members in many ways.

It represents their collective views, as well as the policies of the Union nationally, to the LEA, School Governing Bodies, the press and the media;

it is the only teaching union which allows into membership teachers from all sectors of education from newly qualified teachers to head teachers, supply teachers to advisers and therefore speaks for the whole profession and not just one section of it;

it is the only union which employs its own team of solicitors, in all regions of the country, who specialise in the law as it affects education, teachers and their pupils;

it acts as a source of information and expertise for members to call upon over issues such as salary scales, threshold, sick leave, maternity leave, part-time contracts, job sharing, pensions - in fact, the whole range of education and employment law so important to teachers in their daily working lives;

it provides advice and training for professional development;

it supports and represents individual members facing professional difficulties;