NUT Campaign on Workload

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NUT Campaign on Workload Performance
Managementorganisation, negotiation,
actionnationally organised, locally determined
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Teacher Workload

• Reps were asked to identify the main issues
  raised with them
• Workload 74
• Pupil Behaviour 47
• Pay pensions 41
• Health Safety 32

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Teacher Union responses

• Early 2002
• Joint Conference motions on workload
• Joint action and guidelines
• Late 2002
• NASUWT/ATL/SHA/NAHT/PAT
• Social Partnership leading to January 2003
  Remodelling Agreement /Workload Agreement
  withdrawal of action guidelines
• NUT
• Refusal to accept strings exclusion from
  talks
• Reinforcement of beating back bureaucracy
  guidelines

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The Workload Agreement a price too high

• Obliging unions to promote and promulgate
  outcomes of social partnership
• Compromising ability to campaign on other issues
• Undermining teacher professionalism
• Undermining teachers posts/job descriptions
• Fake workload reduction measures

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Not only too high a price not worth having!

• Office of Manpower Economics Report into 2006
  workload
• no statistically significant reduction in
  teachers working time
• Time spent teaching reduced by 18 minutes a week
  for some, increased for most

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Social Partnership

• A top down approach to teacher trade unionism
• identity of interest between Government,
  employers and workers organisations
• seeks partnership agreements through
  negotitaion (excluding non-partners)
• imposes duty to promote and promulgate the
  results
• Born out of a decline in union activism,
  reflected in European Union Social Model
• Examples workload agreement, RIG, Performance
  Management regulations, teachers duties

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The Organising Culture

• A membership led approach to teacher trade
  unionism
• Members priorities determine union positions,
  policy and action
• Leadership is accountable to members not
  vice-versa
• Negotiations reflect members priorities
• Negotiations backed by active campaigning
• Organisation and activity by members in schools
  and LA services are our source of strength
• Examples pensions, defence of QTS, MAs to TLRs,
  workload, SATs

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Blairs Public Service Reform

• Taken directly from the PMs No 10 strategy unit,
  July 2006
• Top down performance management (pressure from
  government)
• The introduction of greater competition and
  contestability in the provision of public
  services
• The introduction of greater pressure from
  citizens including through choice and voice
• Measures to strengthen the capability and
  capacity of civil and public servants and of
  central and local government to deliver improved
  public services

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Whats it mean for our campaign?

• The organising culture approach
• requires and informed, organised, active
  membership
• The Social Partnership approach
• requires a loyal, acquiescent membership
• The Government strategy
• is to fragment education, divide school from
  school - and to increasingly give more power to
  governing bodies
• Where we are well organised and active, we will
  win. Where we are not, we have a real problem
• Its not a fair world, and the meek do not
  inherit it

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The big picture context

• The Education Act as one of Blairs pieces of
  legacy legislation
• The end of the systematic delivery of state
  education
• The establishment of autonomous educational
  establishments schools colleges
• The developing ownership and/or control of these
  by the private and voluntary sectors
• Preparation for full-blown GATS style
  privatisation
• The testing of unions
• abilities to resist nationally and locally
• openness to corporatism Social Partnership

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The Workload campaign is the immediate test!

• We need
• The NUT, organised, active, determined
• A challenge to the other teacher unions
• The support of non-teacher unions, parents,
  governors, Local Authorities
• The isolation of those governing bodies and Local
  Authorities that stand against us
• Resolute, nationally organised, locally
  determined action
• New levels of support and strategy to build
  strong school groups

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A good local school for every child?

• Publicly funded, state, comprehensive education
• No fragmentation, marketisation, privatisation
• Properly qualified staff teaching and
  non-teaching
• Proper remuneration in terms of nationally agreed
  pay pensions, with no payment by results
• The provision of high quality CPD for all staff
• No excessive workloads proper time to do our
• jobs for the children in our schools and
  services
• Educationally acceptable class sizes

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Performance Management

• Schools will have to consult staff Unions in
  the New Year and during the Summer Term on a
  procedure for Performance Management.
• NUT groups will be able to use the Union
  guidelines in this consultation.

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NUT successes so far

• Implementation delayed to September 2007
• No link with pay on main pay scale current
  arrangements still apply.

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Performance Management

• NUT guidelines cover
• Who does the observations
• Number of reviewees per reviewer
• Number of observations
• Number of targets/objectives
• Nature of targets
• Automatic pay progression on main scale
• Maintaining substantial sustained rule on UPS

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Workload

• The guidelines identify a range of issues
• School groups need to identify the key issues for
  them
• School groups are able to use the guidelines to
  demand and negotiate improvements

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Workload

• Areas covered include
• PPA time
• Meetings
• Planning
• Class size
• Assessment

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Supporting school groups

• Where school groups are unsuccessful in getting
  NUT policy implemented they will be supported by
  the Union
• The Union will ballot members for strike action
  where heads governors will not implement our
  guidelines.

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Opportunities

• This ballot gives us the opportunity to build the
  NUT at school level the basis of an organising
  culture
• Members will be able to exercise their collective
  voice an injury to one is an injury to all

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The NUT

• The NUT is the only Union taking these steps to
  reduce workload
• The NUT is the largest teaching union in Europe.

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VOTE YES!

• Assert your collective voice
• If youre not a member, demand your union joins
  the campaign
• If they wont, join the NUT
• Use the campaign to win workload reduction AND
  make the union strong in every school and
  workplace