NUT on defence of national pay and conditions

26 April 2011

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers' union, said;

“National pay structures are essential to support fairness and equal pay, promote effective recruitment and retention, and provide a clear career path. The Government's plan to break up the national pay structure for teachers will create major problems.

“Schools with budgetary problems will struggle. There will be a risk of poaching staff, creating instability. Teacher supply problems will not be solved but simply shunted around the school system. Local pay bargaining in some 25,000 separate school sites will create unnecessary administrative costs. Attacks on Soulbury, local government and support staff pay structures will create similar problems.

“Lord Hill's letter of December 2010 to heads of schools applying to become academies warned them that agreeing to retain national pay and conditions could put their chances of becoming an academy at risk. This exposed the Government's desire to use academies as a lever to worsen teachers' pay and conditions. Teachers need a national pay structure and the restoration of the collective bargaining rights taken away in 1987”.

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