Staff at five colleges in the north east will strike later this month over a pay dispute with college group Education Training Collective (ETC).
Staff at Bede Sixth Form College, NETA Training Group, Stockton Riverside College, The Skills Academy and Redcar and Cleveland College voted to take to the picket lines on March 20 and 21 after rejecting their employer’s pay offer for 2022/23.
The dispute is over the 22/23 pay award of 3 per cent, with an additional 1 per cent from May 2023.
Members rejected the offer after union officials declared it did not include any improvement on pay and was limited to an extra two “wellbeing days” and additional points on the lecturer and course leader pay scales starting on August 1, 2024.
