ConDem – Myth Busters
We have all heard the rubbish that the ConDem coalition has come out with to justify their ideologically driven cuts. Below is a selection of ConDem lies along with UNISON’s truth. Put some Tories and LibDems on the spot by…
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Download Schools News Winter 2010
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Academies – a divisive policy
Once again we see a government wanting to brick up the state education system and to make it private and selective. UNISON is at the forefront of the campaign to oppose the establishment of academies. School and community campaigns must…
Cuts to Support Staff
UNISON is becoming increasingly concerned that there are hidden cuts and school support services are suffering. School budgets are not protected and the imminent spending cuts are about to hit schools. This will hit support staff and frontline education provision.…
School visits not in vain
Over the last 2 years UNISON North West has invested a lot of time and effort visiting schools to explain to support staff the work of the SSSNB. The project was made possible by a number of front line school…
Government abolish school negotiating body
The SSSNB has been abolished by the Con-Dem government. Although this decision was expected, it will still be a huge disappointment for many UNISON members. The decision to abolish it was in a leaked document from the Cabinet Office in…
Schools News Winter 2010 – Comment
Like you I am extremely angry at the abolition of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB). For years we have been lobbying successive governments over the need to introduce a national framework for support staff, which would have introduced…
Cuts threaten growth and will increase inequality…
But you don’t have to take UNISON’s word for it. Commentators, economists, heath analysts, charities and others from across the political spectrum are worried at the Condems’ policy of savage cuts to the public sector. It wasn’t public services or…
Tory cuts will strangle growth, but there is an alternative
George Osborne has condemned the country to decades of hardship and the people to unnecessary wholesale unemployment, with his “ideologically driven, no hope, no ideas, cuts review” warned UNISON, the UK’s largest public service union. The government has failed to…
HUTTON REPORT – UNISON RESPONSE
Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, said: “Our key priority is to make sure that our members’ pension schemes, that they pay into all their working lives, remain sustainable and affordable and that there is no damaging race to the bottom.…