NEU Cymru welcomes supply teacher report
NEU Cymru’s supply teacher members will be pleased with most of the IWPRB’s recommendations in their review.
Information, advice and resources for NEU Cymru members.
NEU Cymru is Wales’ largest education union. It has a staff of 23, including a full-time solicitor, dealing with the needs of the education workforce. NEU Cymru campaigns to ensure that Welsh Government and local authorities provide the best for education professional and pupils in every educational institution in Wales.
Over the last four weeks teachers in Wales have been voting in their thousands in our preliminary online ballot. Thank you to every single one of you who voted to demonstrate to the Welsh Government the strength of feeling among teachers on the issues of pay and funding and reform of the school year.
Overall Turnout: 6,440 (54.1%)
Q1: Do you agree that you should receive an above-inflation pay rise for 2024-25?
YES: 96.6% NO: 3.4%
Q2: Would you vote “yes” to strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise that constitutes a meaningful step towards a long-term correction in pay, and further funding to provide improved levels of staffing provision in schools and education services?
YES: 87.2% NO: 12.8%
Q3: Would you vote “yes” to strike action if the Welsh Government imposes a reform of the school year by reducing the summer break to four weeks?
YES: 65.3% NO: 34.7%
Our national executive will meet next week, at our conference in Bournemouth, to discuss this result and decide the next steps we’ll be taking.
The preliminary ballot of support staff in England and Wales is still live and will close on 19 April.
NEU Cymru’s supply teacher members will be pleased with most of the IWPRB’s recommendations in their review.
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