Strike!

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Oh, and sixth-form strikes:

https://neu.org.uk/advice/member-groups/sixth-form-colleges/sixth-form-colleges-strikes

Sixth form college members to strike​

Following the resounding 97% vote in favour of strike action by NEU sixth form college teacher members, strike days have been announced across 32 colleges on the following dates: 28 November, 3 December and 4 December.
A total of 40 sixth form college employers were initially balloted on a disaggregated basis, with one college later withdrawn (Blackpool Sixth Form College), achieving a 62% turnout overall and a 97% vote in favour of action.
Despite our best efforts to resolve the dispute through clarification from the Secretary of State for Education that non-academised sixth form colleges could utilise the additional funding allocated to the sector in the budget for staff pay, no such clarification has been received. Academised sixth form colleges had previously received funding to implement the same 5.5% pay award as announced for school teachers.

The following 32 colleges have passed the ballot threshold:​

Aquinas College (Stockport)
Barton Peveril Sixth Form College (Eastleigh)
Bolton Sixth Form College
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
Cardinal Newman College (Preston)
Christ The King Sixth Form College (Lewisham)
Christ The King Sixth Form College Aquinas
Capital City College – Angel (Islington)
Greenhead College (Huddersfield)
Henley College
Hills Road Sixth Form College (Cambridge)
Holy Cross College (Bury)
Itchen College (Southampton)
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College (Birmingham)
Leyton Sixth Form College
Loreto College (Manchester)
Luton Sixth Form College
Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College (Leeds)
Peter Symonds College (Winchester)
Richard Collyer, The College of (Horsham)
Scarborough Sixth Form College
Shrewsbury Colleges Group
Sir George Monoux College (Walthamstow)
St Brendan's Sixth Form College (Bristol)
St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College (Kensington)
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College (Clapham)
St John Rigby RC Sixth Form College (Wigan)
Varndean College (Brighton)
Wilberforce College (Hull)
Winstanley College (Wigan)
WQE and Regent College Group (Leicester)
Wyke Sixth Form College
Xaverian College (Manchester)

 

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"Outsourced staff in Ipswich get
fewer days of annual leave,
less sick pay,
and also missed out on the extra one-off payment of £1,655 that NHS staff received in the last financial year."

And now East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust wants to outsource jobs at
Colchester Hospital and
community sites such as Aldeburgh and Felixstowe hospitals and the rehabilitation clinic at Bluebird Lodge in Ipswich.

So,
cleaners, porters and housekeepers,
as well as other facilities staff are going on strike
for three weeks.

Suffolk workers say they are 'fed up' as they begin three weeks of strike action

More than 350 members of staff will start three weeks of strikes amid a fight for their jobs at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

www.eadt.co.uk