East Sussex pay strikes spread
Ballots in eight schools began this week, adding to the five schools already in dispute as the campaign for fair pay in East Sussex grows. The dispute is over the failure of the local authority to recommend the agreed union rates for teachers, (2%) across the main scale from September 2017, instead recommending 1% in the grades between the min and maximum. The sums involved are relatively small (between zero and about £10K per school). Members in five secondary schools in the area have already taken two days of strike action which was solidly supported. A further school faced with action...