Members of the National Education Union (NEU) will debate a motion calling for national industrial action in pursuit of a “national contract” for all school staff.
At present, only local authority maintained schools have to follow the statutory school teachers’ pay and conditions document and observe national teacher pay scales. Academies can set their own pay and conditions, though many replicate the national approach.
Delegates at the NEU’s annual conference in Bournemouth next week will debate a motion which, if passed, would instruct its executive to “draw up and plan to build for national ballots for industrial action” to win a “national contract”, which would be binding on all schools.
The plan should “draw on the lessons from the 2022-23 pay campaign”, which saw NEU members take several days of strike action over the government’s initial pay offer.
