Following pressure from lobbies, rallies and demos, Bristol City Council finally passed a motion to stand with workers in Palestine and Bristol to demand the Avon Pension Fund divests the £22mil it currently holds in companies complicit in Israel’s massacre of Palestinians. Local activists in Bristol NEU, UNISON and Bristol Trades Council have been campaigning […]

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, released before Christmas, reversed the decision that new schools could only be opened as academies. Why? Because local communities, education workers and pupils have noticed the worrying trend of privatisation in our education system. Where’s the accountability once a school is out of local authority control? No longer is

Please find my penultimate Executive report for the year attached with: 🚩June 18th demo.✔️Tips for updating membership.✊ Details of the SW Women’s Conference.📝 Primary Assessment Updates. There was also discussion on pay for teachers in FE and Sixth Form (with a proposed ballot for September), and further discussions about the Burgundy Book updates. I shared

News: Finalised DfE Sustainability and climate change Strategy launched last week and is available here  Responses to the strategy: NEU press release is here Teach the Future’s response is here. Let’s Go Zero press release is here. This strategy falls flat on key issues, but opens up some possibilities. We’ll discuss it at the Next NEU Climate Network meeting –

The fascist group ‘For Britain’ together with ‘Voice of Wales’ have advertised their intention to come to our city on Saturday April 9th in order to ‘protest against the Black Lives Matter movement at the site of the plinth that once held the statue of Edward Colston’. Their leader Anne Marie Waters will attempt to

At our last general meeting, Bristol NEU voted to fund Return to Work coaching for up to four Bristol NEU members with the Maternity Teacher Paternity Teacher Project. The pay survey (above) continues to provide examples of explicit discrimination against women on the basis of pregnancy or maternity. Bristol NEU is committed to campaigning against the motherhood penalty and for

We need a 9% pay riseYour union is currently demanding a 9% pay rise for all teachers. In addition to the current cost of living crisis teachers have lost almost a fifth of their pay in real terms since 2010. Your union has issued evidence jointly with other education unions to the Statutory Teachers Review