NUT must carry out Conference policy!
The pressure on teachers and education is reaching a crisis point.
Workload gets worse every year, grinding down teachers and damaging education.
The NUT National Executive urgently needs to build national action to defend teachers. After all, that is the policy that they have been instructed to carry out.
At both 2008 and 2009 Annual Conferences, supporters of 'Classroom Teacher' persuaded delegates to support a national ballot on workload. It’s time it was carried out!
Unions can't just act as giant 'casework' organisations, leaving school reps and local officers to run themselves ragged trying to deal with the symptoms. To really win, we have to fight the disease!
We have argued that instead of asking individual school groups to struggle in isolation as we do at present, unions should hold a national action ballot to bring all members together to tackle the issue nationally.
The aim of the action would be clear and popular with teachers across the country - to win a National Contract that at last sets properly binding limits on overall working hours, contact time and class sizes. In other words, teachers would be guaranteed a real limit on our workload, not the worthless promise of a ‘reasonable work/life balance’ - a very broken promise.
If properly planned and built for, consulting with members about the right balance of public campaigning, work-to-rule and regional and national strike action, this campaign could help galvanise teachers into action and raise confidence to stand firm on all the other issues we face.
If you agree, get in contact with Classroom Teacher and help us campaign for the national ballot to be put in place at last!
Workload gets worse every year, grinding down teachers and damaging education.
The NUT National Executive urgently needs to build national action to defend teachers. After all, that is the policy that they have been instructed to carry out.
At both 2008 and 2009 Annual Conferences, supporters of 'Classroom Teacher' persuaded delegates to support a national ballot on workload. It’s time it was carried out!
Unions can't just act as giant 'casework' organisations, leaving school reps and local officers to run themselves ragged trying to deal with the symptoms. To really win, we have to fight the disease!
We have argued that instead of asking individual school groups to struggle in isolation as we do at present, unions should hold a national action ballot to bring all members together to tackle the issue nationally.
The aim of the action would be clear and popular with teachers across the country - to win a National Contract that at last sets properly binding limits on overall working hours, contact time and class sizes. In other words, teachers would be guaranteed a real limit on our workload, not the worthless promise of a ‘reasonable work/life balance’ - a very broken promise.
If properly planned and built for, consulting with members about the right balance of public campaigning, work-to-rule and regional and national strike action, this campaign could help galvanise teachers into action and raise confidence to stand firm on all the other issues we face.
If you agree, get in contact with Classroom Teacher and help us campaign for the national ballot to be put in place at last!
posted by classroom teacher at
20:14
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home