Brent – NEU Woodfield School strike
Striking NEU members on the picket Wednesday 17 July
| National Education Union (NEU) members at Woodfield School (Part of a small academy trust called Compass Learning) in Brent are facing Fire and Rehire. NEU members were out on strike in earlier in the academic year as the school were planning to cut hours, and therefore pay for Lead Learning Assistants (support staff members). The teachers also struck to defend their colleagues. After 13 days of lively picket lines management were forced to agree to go ACAS. They spent a day there, but the best they could offer was free school dinners and few extra hours. But stuck to the plan to cut hours across the board. NEU members described the offer of schools dinners as being like ‘throwing scraps to the dogs’. Lead Learning Assistants are responsible for supporting the behaviour of teenagers with very complex needs who can become highly disregulated and who often live with complex mental health challenges. They are highly skilled workers. After ACAS and a second round of offering voluntary redundancies/flexible working management announced that they were moving to fire and rehire. The NEU members have rebooted and are ready to resume strike action starting on 2 June. The trust have almost £4 million in the bank. The CEO is on £120, 000. They are choosing to break low paid essential workers, rather than cut what they are ‘top slicing’ for their salaries and comfy offices. We are asking you to write to Sebastian Peter Richard Oram, Chair of Trustees, to stop this fire and rehire. Victory to the NEU educators at Woodfield School. |
| Strike dates: June 16 • June 17 • June 18 • June 22 • June 25 • June 26 • June 29 plus further dates up to Friday 17 July if necessary. |