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Janine Booth speaks at NEU annual conference 2026, proposing Motion 40: Equality and sector conferences and replying to the debate. The issues addressed in the debate are outlined here.

Motion 16 calls on the union to improve its organising and representation in the independent sector. That's fine, but we are a bit concerned about Notes 2, which points out that "The IS membership is experiencing prolonged and unprecedented disruption due to economic pressures, including Covid-19...

44 Tory government-approved free schools have been reviewed for whether or not they provide value for money, including three ‘super-selective’ sixth forms in Teeside, Dudley and Oldham. The sixth forms are proposed to be opened by Star Academies, with support from private school Eton College. If...

Educators' Fightback is suggesting that Districts submit this motion to NEU annual conference. Read the background to the issue here. Conference notes the Executive’s decision [1] to: 1. restrict members to attending one equality and one sector conference per academic year 2. deprioritise members...

This is an opinion post. What do you think? Article update: The union has clarified since the Executive took this decision that Equality and Sector Conferences are treated as two distinct types of conferences that one person can attend. You can therefore attend one sector conference and one equality...

The good news from the NASUWT is that it has achieved a successful strike ballot result in 23 sixth form colleges. Better late than never. This means that NEU and NASUWT could take joint strike action and force the sixth form colleges to pay the full rise. The less good news is that neither union is...

NEU has suspended strike action in non-academised sixth forms, and is recommending that members vote to accept the deal on offer. But here at Educators' Fightback, we'll be voting to reject it. The 'new' offer is the same as the previous one we rejected, with the addition to "firm, written...

Teachers in non-academised sixth-form colleges are striking again today, and will rally at Westminster at lunchtime. In the latest round of action to secure the same pay deal as other teachers, around two thousand teachers at 32 colleges are out. We will strike again next Thursday and Friday (6 and...

Today, teachers at 32 sixth-form colleges across England have been on strike. As reported in this week's Solidarity , the strike is in response to the government’s refusal to fund the promised 5.5% pay rise for teachers in these colleges. All schoolteachers have had the 5.5% pay rise and academised...

On 13 June 2023 Nasuwt announced that members in 56 sixth form colleges had voted 87.6% for strikes