I make no apologies for UNISON’s recently submitted 10 per cent pay claim for school support staff (UNISON, 2019).
This bold claim covers all support staff – including teaching assistants, business managers, technicians, cleaners and caretakers – in academies as well as local authority linked schools.
It has been presented alongside our sister unions Unite and GMB (the National Education Union is not recognised to negotiate for school support staff).
The claim – which is for the year from next April – also calls for the minimum wage in schools to be £10 an hour, for improvements in some terms and conditions, and a review of workloads. The latter is important as the Department for Education (DfE) seems only interested in the workload of teachers.
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