"Teachers at The Kimberley School are planning more strike action because a compromise has not been reached over plans for academy status.
The National Teachers Union has planned three more days industrial action next week and say there will be more thereafter until the school is ‘willing to negotiate’.
NUT regional officer Nick Raine said the union met with the chair of governors and the headteacher at the school, but a compromise was not reached leaving him ‘forced to escalate the campaign’.
Mr Raine – who joined teachers on the picket line for the second time Wednesday and Thursday this week, said: “We went to a meeting with management to come to a compromoise but they said their position had not changed.
“Members are unanymous they wanted more action.”
Union members are concerned their pay and conditions will change, school policies will change and are worried an academy chain could take over the school if it gets into financial difficulty."Continue Reading...
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