Teachers prepare for action (From Hampshire Chronicle)
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Teachers prepare for action
12:02pm Tuesday 11th September 2012 in Education
Teachers prepare for action
TEACHERS in Hampshire will refuse to stand in for absent colleagues, supervise lunch breaks or invigilate exams when they take part in industrial action later this month in a row over pay, pensions and workloads.
Members of the two biggest teaching unions are launching coordinated action from September 26 as part of a national dispute with the Government.
The NUT and NASUWT say the action is intended to be “pupil, parent and public-friendly, while resisting Government policies which are undermining teachers’ ability to work effectively to deliver the highest standards of education ”.
Union members have been told to refuse to participate in supervision and assessments of lessons, and only supervise out-of-school activities if it is something they have volunteered for.
Between them, the unions represent 90 per cent of teachers in England and Wales.
The last time the two unions took strike action, in November last year, nine out ten Southampton schools and two-thirds of those in Hampshire were forced to close.
Comments(4)
Georgem
says...
1:39pm Tue 11 Sep 12
sotonbusdriver wrote:So you're back in the union now?
This is a better way of getting a result,,, An all out strike will get the Parents and Public's backs up....
By doing industrial action, school teaching continues although it effects the school Head's and Local Governments, which is where the action needs to hit...
As an ex-union member in the past, I was never in favour of striking as it effects the people that support you, where as industrial action, doing just what you are paid to do, and no more, has reaching impact on the institutions not the public directly
peter.maidment
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2:20pm Tue 11 Sep 12
OSPREYSAINT
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6:30pm Tue 11 Sep 12
sotonbusdriver says...
12:33pm Tue 11 Sep 12
By doing industrial action, school teaching continues although it effects the school Head's and Local Governments, which is where the action needs to hit...
As an ex-union member in the past, I was never in favour of striking as it effects the people that support you, where as industrial action, doing just what you are paid to do, and no more, has reaching impact on the institutions not the public directly