22 May 2026
East London primary school staff to strike over proposed pay…
Teaching assistants at Sir William Burrough Primary School in Tower Hamlets will take strike action over…
Schools & Academies
12 May 2026
93 per cent of school support staff oppose academisation plans
Support staff accuse academy trusts of 'treating education like a business'
11 May 2026
Hillingdon school support staff threaten strike action over pupil…
GMB Union could ballot support staff at Hillside Junior School for strike action over the school’s failure…
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11 March 2026
GMB statement on National Education Union behaviour
The NJC unions met with the TUC and expressed strong concerns, pressing the TUC to take action to reinforce…
23 February 2026
SEND reforms must recognise 'key role' of school support staff
GMB London Region has today [23 February] reacted to the Government’s announcement it will invest billions…
09 February 2026
University Schools Trust proposals could slash support staff…
GMB Union has slammed University Schools Trust after it unveiled plans that could see school support…
27 May 2025
Up to a thousand school staff at risk of redundancy in Norfolk
Schools must stop ‘picking the pockets’ of the lowest paid staff, says GMB Union
01 April 2025
Strike action begins at Tower Hamlets primary school over staff…
25 per cent of teaching assistants will lose their jobs while the workload remains the same, sparking…
17 December 2024
Essex school support staff job losses would be 'devastating'…
Sign our petition here! Dozens of support staff in two Essex schools belonging to the Ortu Federation…
06 June 2023
Ofsted needs major overhaul
School inspection body Ofsted needs major reforms, GMB Congress?heard. A survey of GMB teaching assistant…
02 February 2023
Special School Trust decides teachers and managers are more deserving…
GMB London slams Queensmill Trust for choosing to award its management and teachers a pay rise but not…
21 June 2022
Cayley Primary School in Tower Hamlets’ management rejects staff's…
Tower Hamlets’ school’s proposal to axe nursery nurses by effectively downgrading the role and pay them…