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20 June 2025
Tower Hamlets schools branded 'unsafe' due to scale of injuries…
A union has branded schools in Tower Hamlets ‘unsafe’ following the release of data revealing the scale…
11 June 2025
GMB blasts teachers' union over recruitment of school support…
GMB Union has blasted a teachers' union for recruiting school support staff, despite a cast iron agreement…
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
03 April 2025
‘Damaging’ school merger risks cuts to funding and jobs
The schools targeted for a merger – Harefield Infants and Harefield Juniors – are set to lose almost…
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…
14 February 2025
Strike ballot opens at Tower Hamlets school over planned job…
More than 20 per cent of teaching assistants at St Luke’s Church of England Primary School face redundancy,…
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…
11 December 2023
London School Staff 'Weighting for Change' Campaign put in Motion…
London Assembly Members back GMB's 'Weighting for Change' campaign to tackle the unfairness in how some…
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…
17 June 2022
Exposed: Teaching assistants earning below minimum wage
GMB union members in London gear up for action as internal memo reveals NLW pressures School support…