News
- Health and Safety: Reps, Asbestos, Stress Awareness
- 20th February - School Health & Safety Reps
As the government continues to erode safeguards on health & safety, it is of increasing importance for teachers to monitor the welfare of themselves and others. This is far easier if a school NUT group [...full article]
- Please call on the Government to drop its Health and Social Care Bill
- 20th February - URGENT: Please sign and circulate this petition (from your personal email address) which calls on the Government to drop its Health and Social Care Bill. If 100,000 signatures are collected, the petition will be considered for debate in
the [...full article]
- Disabled Teachers' Conference
- 20th February - The Disabled Teachers' Conference is a two-day event this year. It will be held at the NUT headquarters on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July. If you would like to go as a representative of City of Leicester NUT, please contact [...full article]
- Pensions fight continues as unions prepare for more action
- 20th February - NUT survey: Vote YES to continue the campaign and for more action
The NUT Executive has decided to seek support from members for further strike action to defend our pension scheme.
The decision follows discussion with [...full article]
- 2012 Midlands Women's Conference
- 17th January - [...full article]
- 14-19 Education
- 11th January - Current and planned changes to 14-19 Education are going to affect students and teachers in Secondary Education, with potential job cuts in some subject areas and a worsening of pay and conditions as school provision is merged with FE provision. [...full article]
- Government threatens to impose pensions settlement
- 9th January - "These heads of agreement deliver the Government's key objectives in full, and do so with no new money since our November offer. In future, pension ages will match the state pension age, future schemes will be on a career average [...full article]
- Health and Safety: The Young Report
- 5th December - Over the past eighteen months the government has shown contempt for H&S, typified by the outrageous comments by David Campbell who linked the 'H&S culture' with the August riots, which seemed to suggest that members of the emergency services [...full article]
- Stress awareness – NUT and Leicester City Council working together.
- 5th December - Statistics show that teachers suffer more from stress than any other profession. In Leicester, over the past five
years, absence through work related stress has trebled. It is by far the most common cause of long term absence.
The Health [...full article]
- Negotiations continue
- 5th December - Negotiations between all the unions and the government continued on the day after last
week's strike. At the moment we are still being asked to pay more, work longer and get less, and the government still refuses to carry out a valuation [...full article]
- School closures on November 30th
- 5th December - Schools fully closed to pupils on November 30
Abbey PrimaryAvenue PrimaryBarley CroftBelgrave St Peter'sBraunstone Community PrimaryBraunstone Frith InfantBridge JuniorBuswells [...full article]
- 5,000 Public Sector Workers Converge on Orton Square
- 5th December - An early start for some, with pickets at Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth 1 College and Regent College starting at 7am, began a magnificent show of strength by trade unionists in Leicester.
Up to 5,000 members of 25 different trade unions, with [...full article]
