It's always sad to see good colleagues leave - however in the case of Gillian we won't be shedding too many tears.
Her final act of failing to publish the STRB report and recommendation on teacher pay will not quickly be forgiven.
#GE24
#ValueEducation
🚨 The results are in! 🚨
In our ballot,
@NEUnion
members have voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise.
We have to save our schools.
Today, the National Education Union has taken the difficult decision to advise its members in primary schools that it is unsafe to return to work on Monday.
#MakeSchoolsSafe
to
#ProtectCommunities
. Click here for full statement:
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
In an unprecedented move,
@NEUnion
,
@ASCL_UK
,
@NASUWT
and
@NAHTnews
have announced all four unions will coordinate future industrial action in their dispute with Govt.
.
@GillianKeegan
we think you meant:
Every day, Government underfunding of our schools is causing disruption to our children’s education.
Children should not have to learn in crumbling buildings, in huge classes, taught by teachers not qualified in their subjects, without
Last year, school strikes resulted in 25 million school days being lost cumulatively.
Children should not have to suffer a repeat of this disruption.
I’m announcing that we will introduce minimum service levels in schools so that pupils get the education they need and deserve.
The pandemic is worsening hour by hour.
@NEUnion
has called an emergency executive meeting tomorrow. We will then issue new, urgent advice regarding the proposed opening of primary schools on 4 Jan. These developments will affect those returning to work on Monday
#MakeSchoolsSafe
Today we’ve written to
@nadhimzahawi
. If teachers don’t receive the above inflation pay increase they deserve, we will be balloting for industrial action.
It's time to
#ValueEducation
and
#ValueEducators
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Four senior Government scientific advisers have just broken rank and spoken out about their concerns over school opening on 1 June.
Today, we have issued a call to Government to step back and stop wider school reopening.
Read more 👇
20,000 teachers, lecturers and support staff across this country have joined our call to
#closetheschools
in event of a national lockdown in 1 hour. Join us now:
The
@NEUnion
consultative ballot on the Government's pay offer has been rejected by an overwhelming 98% of NEU teacher members in England on a turnout of 66%.
#NEU2023
#SaveOurSchhols
We've just run the numbers and 400,000 people watched our Zoom call. The strength of feeling of our members is clear. The biggest political online meeting in UK history.
#MakeSchoolsSafe
to
#ProtectCommunities
Today we have written to Secretary of State
@kitmalthouse
to let him know we will moving to a formal strike ballot if teachers don’t get the fully funded pay rise they deserve.
#Teachersdeservebetter
#PayUp
"It will not surprise anyone to learn that Gavin Williamson's much derided period as education secretary was driven largely by pettiness. Today's revelation simply confirms what teachers and parents had always suspected - that Gavin Williamson prioritised point scoring over
The average teacher works 48.7 hours per week. Our teachers are expected to do overtime without pay.
It is time for the government to
#PayUp
to
#SaveOurShools
.
🧵We've just met with tens of thousands of members in England on Zoom about a pay offer from the Government.
We are beginning a consultation but are recommending our members REJECT this offer.
It’s just not good enough.
.
@GillianKeegan
a good job?!🤔
On your Government’s watch, thousands of children are having their education disrupted at the start of a new academic year because of crumbling concrete and unsafe school buildings. The problem with RAAC has been known for years and it’s the tip of
Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’
.
@Ofstednews
should pause all its inspections and reflect upon the unmanageable and counter-productive stress they cause for school leaders, and the impact on leaders.
Discrimination against transgender pupils is illegal under 2010 Equalities Act.
Schools should ignore the Attorney General’s advice and continue to treat their transgender pupils with the dignity and respect they are entitled to.
Union calls on PM to delay school reopenings and make public advice he has received on the risks of this dreadful disease.
Our members have a legal right to work in a safe environment.
60,000 teachers and support staff have now supported our call to
#CloseTheSchools
. Thousands are signing every 15 minutes. Join our fight for teachers, support staff, parents and pupils
We welcome the announcement today that teachers will be awarded a fully funded 5.5% pay award. This is a necessary first step in reversing the real terms cuts inflicted upon the profession over the last 14 years.
#ValueEducators
1/3🧵
STATEMENT: We have agreed with
@GillianKeegan
to enter into a period of intensive talks with her and other education unions. The talks will focus on teacher pay, conditions and workload reduction.
#SaveOurSchools
Full statement here:
"We've ALWAYS funded schools at the right level!" says Gillian Keegan...
🤣🤣🤣
Yet ceilings keep falling, teachers keep leaving and class sizes keep ballooning.
📺 NEU President Emma Rose and DGS Niamh Sweeney give her a piece of their mind.
🚨 The results are in! 🚨
In our ballot, NEU members have voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.
We have now hit 100,000 Facebook Likes, with a huge surge in the last 24 hours and millions of people seeing our posts. Members and parents please follow us on social media so we can
#MakeSchoolsSafe
and
#ProtectCommunities
Unfortunately the
@DailyMailUK
took the political decision to reject our full page advert in their newspaper and have said we can’t advertise.
But you can support the NEU campaign here:
Below is the ad they wouldn't run.
We express sincere and deep condolences to Ruth Perry’s family and friends and to her colleagues. Headteachers like Ruth face significant workloads and intense scrutiny and accountability pressures. Ruth will have made such a difference to many students and to her community.
WATCH:
@LoyleCarner
stands with the striking teachers who lifted him up and saved him.
Thank you
@LoyleCarner
for your support at Glastonbury. And thanks to your mum and your girlfriend for the work they do for their pupils.
It’s time for
@GillianKeegan
to
#doyourjobgill
and
Over 135,000 teaching and support staff have backed our call to close schools and colleges. Over 10 million people have seen our social media, 1000 new members have joined the union and 10,000 people have written to their MP in 1 hour.
We are the NEU.
#putschoolsinthelockdown
Hi
@AndrewMarr9
our message to the country is that our members love teaching but it must be online. 170,000 parents & staff have backed our position. At 11am will be the biggest online political meeting with over 25,000 registered.
#MakeSchoolsSafe
to
#ProtectCommunities
#marr
Schools shouldn't be expected to fund pay rises from their budgets. They must be fully funded.
We will be striking on Tues, 2 May.
Get strike ready here👉
@GillianKeegan
, there's still time to come back to the table with a better offer.
#SaveOurSchools
Education is in crisis in this country. It’s about saving our schools. We don’t want to strike but as teachers in London, South East and South West go on strike today it’s clear we have to take a stand, as the Government won’t.
#SaveOurSchools
📺WATCH: Rain pours into a classroom in a school in Wandsworth because there is no money to repair the roof. The teacher told us the room has flooded a number of times in recent years.
Children shouldn’t be dodging raindrops while trying to learn - this situation is urgent.
When schools were reopened after the spring lockdown, one in 1,000 people were infected with coronavirus. Currently, that figure stands at one in 55.
We all want schools open, but
#OnlyWhenItsSafe
+ Safe for children
+ Safe for staff
+ Safe for families
+ Safe for communities
Our Executive is meeting this morning and we will announce new guidance shortly afterwards. Over 10,000 members have registered for our Zoom briefings this weekend and tomorrow morning's 11am briefing will be live streamed on social media.
#MakeSchoolsSafe
#ProtectCommunities
Today 300,000 teachers are on strike once again.
It’s time for
@GillianKeegan
to publish the STRB and get around the table and talk
👉👉👉share or like if you’re with us
Currently 70,000
@NEUnion
members in a Zoom call. Can’t wait for the article in the Guardian on how TUC unions are modernising and using digital to organise and mobilise.
45,000 teachers and support staff have now supported our call to
#CloseTheSchools
in 3 hours. Join us in our fight for teachers, support staff, parents and children:
Today’s announcement that all pupils will return to English schools on 8 March demonstrates, again, that Boris Johnson has, despite all his words of caution, failed to learn the lessons of his previous mistakes.
#MakeSchoolsSafe
Read our full comment👇
We demand better from Government – for ourselves, our pupils and the profession.
Our next strike days will be:
▶️ 27 April
▶️ 02 May
#NEU2023
#SaveOurSchools
Today 300,000 teachers in England are on strike because education is in crisis.
Teachers work more unpaid overtime than any other profession.
@GillianKeegan
must come to the table and
#SaveOurSchools
Our members are disappointed in your insulting pay offer
@RishiSunak
. That's why they voted overwhelmingly to reject it. We need a much better offer to end this dispute!
#PayUp
#SaveOurSchools
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the pay offer made to teachers was "very reasonable" and calls the newly announced strikes by the National Education Union as "very disappointing."
#skynews
Despite our efforts, Govt has shown no understanding of just how serious the situation in education is. Our members need a fully-funded pay rise.
We will be taking strike action on 27 April and 2 May.
Get strike day ready at 👉
#SaveOurSchools
#PayUp
NEU statement on
@educationgovuk
teacher pay deal. With inflation at 11%, a 5% pay offer is, in fact, a pay cut. We have no choice but to hold the biggest ballot of teachers for a generation. We must
#ValueEducators
.
Teachers want to teach. They want the best for the children they teach. But they also want to be safe and want their communities to be safe. The evidence says this isn't the case.
#CloseTheSchools
. Back our call:
In our ballot,
@NEUnion
members voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.
Schools shouldn't be expected to fund pay rises from their budgets. Pay rises must be fully-funded.
We will be taking strike action on 27 April & 2 May.
Get strike ready👉
@GillianKeegan
, there's still time to come back to the table with a better offer.
More and more people realise that we must include schools and colleges in the lockdown. Our campaign to amend the bill in Parliament has now reached 150,000 signatures and 20,000 have written to their MP.
#PutSchoolsInTheLockdown
There are no negotiations and
@GillianKeegan
refuses to release the pay review body report going as far as to refuse an FOI because it’s apparently not in the public interest.
This is why teachers are strike today because we have to
#SaveOurSchools
👉If you’re with us like or
The
#COVID19
variant is a threat to education.
Testing won't be in place by Jan 4,
@NEUnion
is calling for 3 steps:
💻 Move learning Online for first 2 weeks of Jan
🏥 Public Health to set up testing for those 2 weeks
💉 Begin vaccinating education staff
Don’t make us use our teacher voice, Isabel!
Firstly, teachers were striking following a legal ballot and secondly, showing children you have to stand up for what you believe in sets an excellent example.
#SaveOurSchools
Striking teachers set a terrible example to children. Walking out in a strop because things aren't quite as you want them to be is no approach to working life!
.
@educationgovuk
data released show on average the rate of Covid-19 infection is 1.9 times higher amongst primary & secondary teachers than the general population, & 2 times higher for special school teachers.
Read our full comment
#MakeSchoolsSafe
Spot on here from
@GNev2
!
The secondary assessment system is not fit for purpose. Teachers and parents agree that one-off end-of-course exams do not properly prepare students for life after school or college.
Learn more about
@NEUnion
's campaign here 👉
Gary Neville: "I have a different belief around exams. I don't believe you should work for 16 years at school & college & then it all depends on a 2 hour assessment... I think that's prehistoric... it needs ripping up & you should be judged over your body of work."
#BBCBreakfast
🚨🚨🚨PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨🚨 "Children have one chance for childhood. This General Election, we have one chance to say enough poverty, enough austerity, enough cuts. One chance for childhood. One chance to vote. Use yours wisely."
#valueeducation
#voteeducation
#generaleection2019
Dear current Government,
Please don’t employ experts to review what you should be paying us and then ignore them when, surprise, surprise, they find that you should be paying more than you’re willing to pay.
Your last pay offer was an insult to us hardworking professionals.
The scientists said that schools must be included in the lockdown for it to work and the Government said no. This political decision puts kids, parents and staff at risk.
#PutSchoolsInTheLockdown
Join the 85,000 teachers and support staff who have joined our call to
#CloseTheSchools
. We are on the side of the teaching profession, parents and children.
Big news: The British Medical Association writes to the NEU.
The BMA notes the “publication of your 5 tests, and we stand in full support of you”.
Thank you
@TheBMA
If you want to schools to open when it’s safe, then have a look at our
#fivetests
.
If you agree with them, then please tweet them to your MP asking them to support.
The pay offer from Govt was an insult to hardworking teachers and failed to acknowledge the crisis in education.
Today and on 2 May,
@NEUnion
members are striking for a fully funded pay rise.
Send a short message/video of support via link in bio.
#SaveOurSchools
#PayUp
🚨 The results are in! 🚨
In our ballot,
@NEUnion
members voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.
Tomorrow morning this advert will appear in over 20 newspapers. Over 1 million people have viewed the advert on
@tiktok_uk
in the last 3 hours. We are taking our message to the country.
#SaveOurSchools
NEW: The Government have finally seen sense and u-turned. All primary schools across London will be treated the same.
This is the right decision - and I want to thank education minister Nick Gibb for our constructive conversations over the past two days.
“You have cut funding, you’ve cut budgets in school, we can’t recruit teachers, we can’t recruit teaching assistants. You have cut local services to the bone.”
👏 Well done to this
#BBCQT
audience member, taking Government to task
#SaveOurSchools
“You have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?”
This
#bbcqt
audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the government’s performance, saying she’s “staggered” at the gap between the audience and the panel
We are calling for the bill presented to Parliament this week to be amended to include the closure of schools and colleges in the lockdown.
Write to your MP and tweet at them now:
#putschoolsinthelockdown
Today, Govt has offered a 6.5% pay rise for teachers with extra money for schools and action to tackle workload.
Our executive has decided to recommend to members that they accept the offer.
Your hard work and strength have got us to this point. Now we need to know what you
Blair Peach was killed on this day in 1979 on an anti-racist demonstration by the police. He was a teacher and a proud trade union activist in East London NUT.
@NEUnion
remembers him in our continued fight against racism and fascism today and every day.
Dreadful. The views of education staff who actually work in education not mentioned once on
#marr
.
Well we are 450,000 strong and aren't going anywhere. Join us at 11am for the biggest online political meeting in history.
#MakeSchoolsSafe