工会猛烈抨击支持人员薪酬“缺乏有意义的进展”

Unions representing school support staff have threatened the government with industrial action over a “lack of meaningful progress” on improving pay.

The leaders of GMB, Unison and Unite, which between them represent more than 500,000 education workers in England,have written to education secretary Bridget Phillipson with concerns the remit of the new School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB) will initially be “very limited”.

Gary Smith, Andrea Egan and Sharon Graham have also expressed fears a move to encourage all schools to join trusts comes “at precisely the moment when a coherent national framework for school support staff remains absent”.

Unless there is “meaningful progress” on pay, the unions “we will have no option but to escalate our response publicly and industrially”, they said.

工党在选举宣言中承诺重建 SSSNB。该机构是在新工党领导下建立的，但被联合政府废除。

In their letter, the union leaders called SSSNB “our best and long overdue opportunity to address the deep-rooted inequalities, fragmentation, and inconsistency experienced by school support staff across England”.

“然而，迄今为止谈判的速度和实质内容正在使这种信心面临严重风险。”

Just last year, Phillipson wrote inSchools Week that support staff “have been undervalued and denied professional respect for far too long”.

“是时候让他们获得公平的薪酬和应有的专业尊重了。”

工作评估工作“没有进展”

But in their letter, the union leaders said that at a SSSNB working group meeting on 20 May, they were informed the remit for the body initially “would be very limited”.

The unions said they were told “there would be no progress” on strand two of the SSSNB’s work – a national approach to job evaluation and role profiles – “within this Parliament”.

The DfE was approached for comment.

Industrial action threat