Lewisham NUT calls for action on workload
Lewishm NUT has written the following letter to NUT Associations:
Please prioritise Motion 6: Workload, Pay and Class Sizes – A Comprehensive Strategy
Many Associations, including ourselves in Lewisham, will be meeting before the end of January to consider prioritisation of Conference motions.
In your discussions, we hope you will consider the six motions submitted by Lewisham Association, including Motion 19, urging the Union to consider supporting community candidates in local elections, and Motion 34, calling for a genuinely democratic comprehensive school system. However, it is Motion 6 that my Officers' Committee have asked that I particularly write to draw to your attention.
Conference 2009 will have to prepare members to defend conditions against expenditure cuts that may be proposed as a result of economic recession, as Motion 6 suggests. Above all, delegates will also need to consider the lessons of the pay campaign. We believe that a key conclusion to be drawn is that a ballot for action over both pay and conditions issues would have secured greater national support from our members. It is this joint policy which Motion 6 is putting forward for debate.
In fact, this comprehensive strategy has already been supported by Conference 2008. In the debate on workload, delegates recognised that local disputes should be pursued wherever possible. However, Conference concluded that a ballot for national action, combined with other issues such as pay, was required to tackle our workload burden.
It is essential that this joint approach, gathering together the combined grievances of different teachers, is firmly agreed at this year's Conference. The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document, as its title suggests, combines these issues together. A comprehensive claim, backed up with strike action, should be our combined response.
Finally, such a strategy would also allow us to approach members of other teaching unions for joint action and reveal to colleagues whether the leadership of the NASUWT are really serious about taking action on workload or not.
Yours sincerely, Martin Powell-Davies, Secretary, Lewisham NUT.
Please prioritise Motion 6: Workload, Pay and Class Sizes – A Comprehensive Strategy
Many Associations, including ourselves in Lewisham, will be meeting before the end of January to consider prioritisation of Conference motions.
In your discussions, we hope you will consider the six motions submitted by Lewisham Association, including Motion 19, urging the Union to consider supporting community candidates in local elections, and Motion 34, calling for a genuinely democratic comprehensive school system. However, it is Motion 6 that my Officers' Committee have asked that I particularly write to draw to your attention.
Conference 2009 will have to prepare members to defend conditions against expenditure cuts that may be proposed as a result of economic recession, as Motion 6 suggests. Above all, delegates will also need to consider the lessons of the pay campaign. We believe that a key conclusion to be drawn is that a ballot for action over both pay and conditions issues would have secured greater national support from our members. It is this joint policy which Motion 6 is putting forward for debate.
In fact, this comprehensive strategy has already been supported by Conference 2008. In the debate on workload, delegates recognised that local disputes should be pursued wherever possible. However, Conference concluded that a ballot for national action, combined with other issues such as pay, was required to tackle our workload burden.
It is essential that this joint approach, gathering together the combined grievances of different teachers, is firmly agreed at this year's Conference. The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document, as its title suggests, combines these issues together. A comprehensive claim, backed up with strike action, should be our combined response.
Finally, such a strategy would also allow us to approach members of other teaching unions for joint action and reveal to colleagues whether the leadership of the NASUWT are really serious about taking action on workload or not.
Yours sincerely, Martin Powell-Davies, Secretary, Lewisham NUT.
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