Campaigning points from NUT Conference
PAY
- Lobby DfE for removal of Paragraph 51.7 of STPCD, which covers additional working hours.
- Regional briefings in the summer term to outline the case for our pay claim and need for action
- Local association briefings in summer term
- Produce materials for an internal poll of members in the summer term
- Review results of first stage of campaign
- Ballot for action in 2018/19
- Monitor the pay policies of MATs
WORKLOAD
- Lobby DfE for removal of Paragraph 19 of STPCD – Performance Related Pay.
- Encourage associations to encourage the use of the workload survey to identify common workload issues across groups of schools
- Co-ordinate industrial action across schools
- Disseminate current Workload Charters and carry out a review of their effectiveness.
FUNDING
- Weekend of activity in summer term
- National demonstration on school funding
- Encourage members to take action at local level where cuts are leafing to attacks on pay and conditions and damaging education
BASELINE AND PRIMARY ASSESSMENT
- Work to organise local activities on National Children’s Day on May 13th
- Produce information and campaign packs
- Model letters asking schools not to take part in Baseline Pilot
- Encourage local associations to discuss this at general meetings and to report back via executive members and regional offices
- Indicative survey of members in all primary and infant schools and use to identify where formal ballots might be successful to stop Baseline Pilot going ahead
- Assess campaign through regional briefings, executive meetings, national briefings and a national mobilising event
- Link campaign on Baseline to campaign on SATs
- Encourage local associations to set up local MTAS groups
- Prepare materials for use in local associations during SATs week
EDUCATION & EQUALITIES
- Encourage local associations to work with local libraries on community events as part of Stand Up For Education campaign
- Consult widely with members on their views for a National Education Service
- Major conference on curriculum and pedagogy
- Encourage local associations to organise local events and training to publicise and debate “It’s Just Everywhere”.
- Encourage local associations to distribute the NEU resource pack on supporting refugee children
- Work with LAs to ensure policies and procedures include actions for dealing with racism, methods of reporting racism, that complaints will be taken seriously and acted upoin
- Organise a conference on fighting reported Islamophobia and Homo/Bi/Transphobia
- Encourage regions to organise annual equality events
GREATER LONDON PAY
- Arrange a meeting between Executive members, Division Secretaries and the Mayor of London
- Arrange a meeting with the biggest possible number of London MPs
- Arrange meetings with GLA members and council leaders in LAs where teachers are not paid on Inner London Scale
- Special briefing of NUT Reps and activists in boroughs concerned