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From The Socialist newspaper, 26 January 2022
Education: Workload and inflation goes up, incomes fall
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Socialist Party members in Education
This term has started just as last term finished: school staff under intolerable pressure from incessant workload and Covid absences. Yet in return for all our efforts, our real incomes are sharply falling as the cost of living rises. Fuel prices are set to rise further, as are the costs of mortgage payments.
Many support staff and supply colleagues are already struggling. The hourly rate of a newly qualified teacher working 50-60 hours a week, but being paid less than £2,200 a month, is at minimum wage levels.
Years of below-inflation pay awards show how little value is being placed on both educators and education by this government. It's time to demand change. We deserve better. Education deserves better.
Between now and July, the School Teachers' Review Body will be deliberating over what pay increase they will recommend teachers get in September 2022. Once again, this government will be telling them to keep any increase to a minimum. They certainly won't be looking to match an inflation rate that could soon be as high as 7%. In short, we are set for another pay cut - unless we take action to win our pay demands.
The NEU executive wants to know how strongly you feel about how badly educators are being treated. That's why a survey is being sent out to the email address of our union members from 14 January.
It's vital that members return the survey and say 'yes' to action on pay.
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In The Socialist 26 January 2022:
What we think
We need a workers' alternative to big business Tories and Labour
News
Lords reject parts of anti-protest bill
Social care providers put profit before residents' needs - nationalise care now
Cost of living
Trade unions and the cuts
Trade unions and the fight against council cuts
Workplace news
Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally
Oaks Park School: valiant strike exposed state of schools
Education: Workload and inflation goes up, incomes fall
DWP reps demand action from PCS leadership
10,000 tube workers vote to strike - don't make workers pay for TfL funding crisis
Strike action by Carmarthenshire winter gritters wins concessions from council
Universities: Strike action at 68 in two disputes
Worksop Wincanton logistics workers begin ninth week of strike action
International news
Trade unionists in the USA fighting back
Campaigns news
Hundreds protest to save St Mary's Leisure Centre in Southampton
Wakefield TUSC - Fighting for low-paid workers and NHS
Eviction resistance on the march in Waltham Forest
This is students' chance to fight back - help build 2 March NUS walkout
Environment
Britain's waterways choked with a 'chemical cocktail'
Readers' opinion
War in Yemen, made in Harlow, profit for rich
UK Covid-19 mortality similar to Spanish Flu
It's my party, and I'll lie if I want to
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