logo-education
0370 270 6000

already registered?

Please sign in with your existing account details.

Sign in with LinkedIn

need to register?

Register to access exclusive content, sign up to receive our updates and personalise your experience on brownejacobson.com.

Privacy statement - Terms and conditions

Register with LinkedIn

Forgotten your password?

Browne Jacobson home arrow Home arrow Insights arrow Blogs arrow Teachers' unions announce national autumn strike in England

teachers’ unions announce national autumn strike in England

6 September 2013

The NUT and NASUWT are threatening to call a one-day national strike before Christmas, in addition to the regional strikes already planned for 1 October and 17 October. The unions have not set a date for the national strike, and it’s believed that the date will be set once the regional strikes have taken place. Details are scarce; however it appears that the unions are trying to increase pressure on the government to resolve their ongoing disputes over pensions, pay and conditions.

The NUT and NASUWT represent 9 out of 10 teachers in England and Wales. A national strike has great potential to disrupt pupils’ learning and, if schools are forced to close, inconvenience parents who will need to make other arrangements. Such action is therefore unlikely to engender public sympathy for the unions’ concerns.

related opinions

Changes expected on wearing face masks in schools

Yesterday the DfE will announce that, from 17th May, they will no longer recommend that secondary school age pupils wear face masks in classrooms.

View blog

Home Office Central Registry for modern slavery statement goes live - first universities publish statements

The Home Office recently launched a central registry for modern slavery statements. A growing number of educational organisations, including a number of universities, have published statements on the registry.

View blog

Allegations of abuse in schools, colleges and universities

The website “Everyone’s Invited” is a movement which is “committed to eradicating rape culture” and describes “rape culture” as “all the ways that different forms of aggressive and violent sexual behaviour are normalised, encouraged and even admired by society”. Find out more.

View blog

Lateral flow daily contact testing paused

Following last week’s Guardian article about the concerns over lateral flow daily testing for those identified as having been a close contact of a person testing positive for Covid-19, Public Health England (PHE) and NHS Test and Trace (NHSTT) have published a position statement to recommend that daily contact testing in schools will be paused.

View blog

View all blogs

mailing list sign up



Select which mailings you would like to receive from us.

Sign up

information

  1. Investors in people
  2. social mobility index
  3. Lexcel
  5. Plain English Campaign Approved

follow us...

© Copyright Browne Jacobson LLP 2021 - All rights reserved