VOTE YES TO STRIKE BACK AGAINST PAY ROBBERY
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The NUT’s national strike ballot gives teachers across England and Wales the chance to stand firm together, to make clear that we’re not going to sit back and see our salaries cut, our workload get ever harder, our schools further divided by tables, targets & privatisation.
It’s been over twenty years since teachers took national action - two decades when conditions for staff, and our students, have been ground down by successive governments. It’s time to say that enough is enough!
Don’t let any colleague be fooled by Gordon Brown’s claims that our pay is keeping up with inflation. We’ve already had three years when our pay awards have fallen behind the Retail Price Index. No wonder many teachers are already beginning to feel the pinch. If you aren’t - then you soon will be if Gordon gets his way!
Unless we act, teachers face three more years of real pay cuts. Bills will continue to rise - but teachers’ pay won’t keep step. Year-on-year, the loss in purchasing power will add up to over £8,000 for a M6 teacher, and around £10,000 for a colleague on UPS3. Nobody would sit back quietly and allow themselves to be robbed of thousands of pounds - so why should we!
The best way that trade unionists can make sure their complaints are noticed is to take national strike action. So urge all the NUT members you know to vote for it! Let’s make this the moment when we start to turn the tide, when we lift our heads from the daily grind and grumbles, and vote to take united national action!
Martin Powell-Davies, Lewisham NUT.
The NUT’s national strike ballot gives teachers across England and Wales the chance to stand firm together, to make clear that we’re not going to sit back and see our salaries cut, our workload get ever harder, our schools further divided by tables, targets & privatisation.
It’s been over twenty years since teachers took national action - two decades when conditions for staff, and our students, have been ground down by successive governments. It’s time to say that enough is enough!
Don’t let any colleague be fooled by Gordon Brown’s claims that our pay is keeping up with inflation. We’ve already had three years when our pay awards have fallen behind the Retail Price Index. No wonder many teachers are already beginning to feel the pinch. If you aren’t - then you soon will be if Gordon gets his way!
Unless we act, teachers face three more years of real pay cuts. Bills will continue to rise - but teachers’ pay won’t keep step. Year-on-year, the loss in purchasing power will add up to over £8,000 for a M6 teacher, and around £10,000 for a colleague on UPS3. Nobody would sit back quietly and allow themselves to be robbed of thousands of pounds - so why should we!
The best way that trade unionists can make sure their complaints are noticed is to take national strike action. So urge all the NUT members you know to vote for it! Let’s make this the moment when we start to turn the tide, when we lift our heads from the daily grind and grumbles, and vote to take united national action!
Martin Powell-Davies, Lewisham NUT.
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