why is the nut balloting?
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Why is the NUT balloting?. below-inflation pay increases every year since 2005 further below-inflation increases proposed for 2008, 2009 and 2010 the result? real terms pay cuts, affecting every teacher and hitting the youngest hardest. The Government’s proposals. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Why is the NUT balloting?
below-inflation pay increases every year since 2005
further below-inflation increases proposed for 2008, 2009 and 2010
the result? real terms pay cuts, affecting every teacher and hitting the youngest hardest
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The Government’s proposals
September 2008 – pay increase of 2.45% September 2009 and September 2010 – further
increases of 2.3% Inner and Outer London – slightly higher
increases BUT still below inflation nothing to restore the pay losses in 2006 and
2007
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Fair pay for teachers???
2005 pay increase - 3.25% (staged) below inflation
2006 & 2007 pay increases - 2.5% inflation at 3.6% and 4.1%
2008 proposed pay increase inflation currently 4.1%
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How much have we lost?
if pay had matched inflation… pay for NQTs would be £1000 p.a higher pay for UPS3 teachers would be over £1600 p.a
higher pay for leadership teachers would be higher by
£2000 or morecumulative pay loss for UPS3 teacher almost £4000 by the end of next year and rising
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Private sector pay
no Government pay limit… average earnings rising by over 4% chief executives’ pay up by 37% - now 100 times
average earnings bonus payments up 30% to £14 billion pounds
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Teachers losing out
starting pay teachers get almost £3,000 less than in
comparable professions
pay progression 25 per cent for teachers over first 3 years
(M1 to M4) over 50 per cent for other graduates
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Did you know?
50% of NQTs leave the profession within 3 years of taking up their first job
(Source: Teacher Development Agency)
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Teachers losing out
Upper Pay Scale points 4 and 5 introduced in 1999 – abolished in 2004 100,000 teachers on UPS3 have lost a potential
£3,400 p.a extra 26 teachers on the “replacement” ETS
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Teachers losing out
TLR payments system already 30,000 fewer teachers hold
responsibility payments more will lose when the system is fully
implemented and safeguarding ends pay losses from £1638 to £11,275 p.a
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Teachers losing out
housing costs teachers on average pay won’t get a mortgage
for the average house in over 3/4 of towns they won’t even get a mortgage for the average
flat in almost half of towns mortgage repayments and rent are also rising
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Teachers losing out
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Teachers’ workload
a continuing major problem real terms pay cuts but no cuts in workload most primary and secondary teachers still work
50+ hours per week
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Who is being balloted?
all NUT members covered by the STPCD teachers in primary, secondary and special schools teachers in PRUs and centrally employed teachers foundation & VA schools included academies to be considered individually Sixth form colleges & Soulbury members not included at
this stage
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The ballot timetable
28 February ballot opens
31 March ballot closes
24 April planned one day strike
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Help the NUT’s campaign
vote “yes” in the ballot organise a meeting in your school and persuade
your NUT colleagues to vote “yes” in the ballot send an e-mail message to your MP – go to
www.teachers.org.uk
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