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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…
10 June 2022
Cost of living in London: 1 in 3 London Teaching Assistants turning…
1 in 3 school support staff in London are looking to food banks to support them through the next few…
22 March 2022
National Education Union staff prepared to take strike action…
GMB members working for the National Education Union (NEU) have reached an agreement on a pay increase…
04 August 2021
Over 80% of teaching assistants would feel safer if CO2 monitors…
GMB the union for school support staff calls for Government to fund the installation of CO2 monitors…
01 April 2021
Government cuts to school’s budget is taking a disproportionate…
GMB London call on the London Borough of Ealing to halt the potential 21 job losses announced at Hobbayne…
15 January 2021
School Support Staff have the right to feel safe at work
School Support Staff being encouraged not to self isolate says GMB London