Get ballot ready!

On 28 February, our indicative ballot will ask members if they would be prepared to strike over pay, funding, and workload. To make sure you can take part, check your myNEU details are correct.

The executive has approved the launch of the campaign, taking the argument for better pay and funding to the government, to parents, and the profession.

The government has proposed :       

 1. an unfunded 6.5 per cent pay rise spread over the next three years, unlikely to match inflation.         

  2. To get rid of the 1,265 working hours directed time limit, the only contractual protection is on workload. The historic decline in real-terms pay and loosening rules around workload will do nothing to address the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis.

Our schools are already ‘running on empty’, with years of chronic underfunding to blame for a lack of resources, staff redundancies, a crumbling school estate, inadequate SEND provision, and so much more.

We know that taking industrial action – or being prepared to take action – is the most effective way to force the government to change its mind. We have done it before, and we can do it again.