UNISON is the largest union in education in the UK, representing 350,000 education staff.
Our members include librarians, registrars, people working in personnel, IT and finance departments, teaching assistants, technicians, early years (nursery) staff, policy advisors, administrators, secretaries, cleaners, caretakers, school meals workers, craft workers, porters working in schools, children's services, colleges and universities.
(9/8/10) The list of schools that have applied to convert to academy status as of 23 July is now available
UNISON is supporting the Nursery World Show 2011. It is the leading
exhibition dedicated to early years and has a mix of workshops and seminars
on early years practice.
(06/08/2010)The UNISON Brighton Branch have set up and online petition for young people and anyone else we can get hold of to sign! It is on facebook so please circulate this to young people,parents, carers, teachers and supporters of the service.
(11/08/2010) UNISON has produced guidance for branches on how to deal with those employers that are failing to honour the Public Sector Equality Duties.
(08/08/2010)To support our campaign against the cuts to Higher Education we have set up a facebook group. To join please go to this link
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=182335111951
(23/03/2010) This article tells members about what has been happening in Ofsted.
(15/07/2010)Following the general election, the Independent Chair of the SSSNB received a letter from the Department for Education which stated that the Department was undertaking a review of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB) and support staff pay and conditions. As a result of this SSSNB activities was put on hold. The SSSNB Executive Group met on 13 July. At that meeting, Department for Education officials stated that government Ministers had still not made a decision on the future of the SSSNB. They were asked specifically to provide a written update on which areas, if any, of the SSSNB work programme could continue. The independent chair will be writing to the Secretary of State expressing concern over the delay. UNISON and the other support staff unions have also written to the Secretary of State asking for an urgent meeting to discuss this. To date we have not received a reply.
(07/07/2010)
UNISON today submitted the 20010/11 pay claim for support staff in sixth form colleges. The key points of the claim were: