Sixth kind university instructors in England will certainly proceed strike activity in a disagreement over pay.
More than 2,000 National Education Union (NEU) participants in non-academised 6th kind universities will certainly abandon January 29, February 6 and February 7, the union has actually introduced.
Seven days of strike activity have actually currently been taken by NEU participants in 32 non-academised universities given that November.
The Government introduced in 2015 that instructors in institutions throughout England would certainly obtain a completely moneyed 5.5% pay increase from September 2024.
The Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA) has actually used instructors in non-academised 6th kind universities 3.5% for September 2024 to March this yearâ and afterwards 5.5% from April, the NEU stated.
Meanwhile, instructors in 6th kind universities with academy condition have actually been used 5.5% from September 2024, 7 months earlier than their coworkers in non-academised universities.
The leader of the NEU stated the union opposed the âtwo-tier pay systemâ which he called âabsurd and blatantly unfairâ.
Earlier today, an additional mentor union, the NASUWT, released a tally of greater than 1,800 of its participants in 6th kind universities in England for commercial activity in a defend a reasonable pay rise.
The tally of NASUWT participants in 6th kind universitiesâ both academies and non-academiesâ will certainly shut on February 10.
Daniel Kebede, basic assistant of the NEU, stated: âOur sixth form teachers working in non-academised colleges started 2025 on below-freezing picket lines, as they showed their determination whatever the weather to reject a two-tier pay system.
âWe should not have entered the new year with this glaringly obvious injustice still in place, and it is well past time that the Government put the necessary funding in place to guarantee the same pay award for every college teacher.
âWe will never accept a situation in which college teachers in non-academised colleagues are paid less than their academised peers for identical work.
âIt is absurd and blatantly unfair to under-fund sixth form colleges in this way, risking lasting damage to long-standing collective bargaining arrangements.
âIn affected colleges across the nation, from Brighton to Preston, our members remain steadfast in their desire for pay justice across all sixth form colleges.
âWe call on those in power to do what is right and guarantee funding for the same pay rise for all college teachers.â
Bill Watkin, president of the SFCA, stated: âWe are extremely disappointed that NEU has announced further strike action before our formal pay talks have concluded.
âPay rates for sixth from college teachers (excluding annual incremental progression increases) have increased by 18% since September 2022.
