NEU Bristol and South Glos Young Educator Network

Stop the war on Gaza!

As with previous years, we are running a session at Bristol Transformed, a political education festival. We're having a planning meeting this Wednesday after school in St Werburghs. If you're interested in getting involved, give us a dm for more information.

Bristol Transformed Bristol Transformed is a festival of politics and culture in which we discuss and engage with the most exciting ideas and innovations emerging from the Left.

There's a big public meeting happening this Thursday for any South Gloucestershire Education workers and parents/carers!

Register now for the Workers Can Win organising school - more details via https://www.facebook.com/events/177029031787733/177029048454398/

NEU South Glos and Bristol pre-strike meet-up!
When: 6pm Wednesday 1st March
Where: The Greenbank Pub, BS5 6DP

🍕 Pizza and a free drink before 8pm

💪 Come together as a group, meet striking workers from other schools, share experiences and discuss how to

📢 Keep up the momentum

✊ Support colleagues to access strike fund

🗣 Get the message out to parents

🚩 Collect NEU resources for your picket lines

🪧 Materials for banners, placards and badges will be available

🎶 Come up with some chants for Thursday

Senior officers, local district secretaries and reps are also around to support - see you there!

Join us at the Malcolm X centre tomorrow from 6pm!!
Loads of materials and free food!!

Banners, banter & free food! See you there.

It's gonna be big. Come after picketing.

Bristol Trades Union Council

Why we strike – eight workers on their reasons for joining the picket line in Britain’s new winter of discontent A teacher, a nurse, a barrister, a doctor, a postie, an academic, a paramedic and a rail worker explain why they have had no choice but to walk out

Teacher strikes: what will the government do? Sam Freedman explains why the move to strike action is the logical result of a sector stretched to almost breaking point - which may lead to drastic actions by a government seemingly unwilling to budge

In our ballot, NEU members voted in overwhelming numbers to take historic strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. We have to save our schools.

In England, 84.13% of support staff in the ballot group voted YES to taking industrial action on a turnout of 46.46%.

This result, despite being hugely in favour of action, just missed the Government's restrictive thresholds.

Schools cannot run without support staff and the vital work they do.

We know our support staff members will be hugely disappointed and we’ll be contacting them later this week to talk about what comes next.

But we are so proud of the stand they have made – support staff are the backbone of our schools and we promise to carry on fighting for decent pay and proper funding for every one of them.

Find out more and lend us your support, visit www.payupsos.com

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Come to our next union social on Thursday 8th December 7pm - Dawkins Brewery! https://www.facebook.com/events/1457569541400961

"Whether it is the rescaling of GCSE grades, guidance over suppressing anti-racist, anti-capitalist ideas, seeking to undermine decolonial protest, disingenuous ‘free speech’ controversies that often hide a desire for freedom from criticism on issues of equality – the education system has been re-organised in ways that exacerbate inequality and seek to suppress and repress critical educators. The governance structures imposed through academisation, college incorporation and mergers or the concentration of power and wealth in universities all ultimately act to weaken democracy."

Time to shut down the education factory Sol Gamsu explains why it is time for historic coordinated action across the education sector

You have been issued with a voting link as an NEU support staff member.

We are recommending you reject it and vote for industrial action.

Contact [email protected] if you didn’t receive your ballot link by email or text.

Are you ballot ready?! It's vital that you check that your details are correct - it's super simple and quick to do. Click the link, log in and check.
Log in to your account here: https://my.neu.org.uk/login

🚩 Today at 1:30pm ✊

Yesterday, NPYW educators were at Bristol Temple Meads standing in solidarity with RMT workers ✊

Join us for the RMT support strike rally on Saturday at Temple Quay at 1:30pm. Bring your placards and flags along 🚩

To beat the cost of living crisis and live and work with dignity isn't easy. The Bosses are squeezing everything they can out of working-class people. To beat them, you need to build power in your workplace that can deliver mass-participation actions.
Bristol Union School is about sharing the skills to do it.
The Curriculum for the rest of 2022 is:
* Thursday 28th July: Speaking Strategically - We will discuss why people dont unionise and practice ways to change their minds with strategic use of language.
*Thursday 25th August: Structured Organising Conversations - will cover the idea of integrating strategic organising plans and one-to-one conversations via the critical tool of workplace organising: Structured Organising Conversations (a step-by-step method to get workers to commit to action)
*Thursday, 29th September: The Class-War-Game - we put it all together with a role-playing game where you will speed run organising a hypothetical workplace using the skills we have built over previous sessions.
RSVP here: https://fb.me/e/1D2URwCSm

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Bristol Pride 2022🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
We are planning on marching as an NEU block. Meet outside the Tesco opposite castle park from 10:15 (march sets off at 10:45)
🌈The festival will again be held on the Downs and we’ll be there all day running the NEU stall in the Community Area tent (in the middle of the festival area) so come along and say hello 😊

To win the pay ballot, we need to make sure that member data is up to date. If you've changed school, address, email or job role since you first signed up with the NEU, you'll need to double check.

Then you need to remind every other member you come across.

myNEU — The National Education Union

📅Join the TUC rally on 18th June
💵We are owed 17% pay!
Teachers and support staff have had real term pay cuts!
📈Inflation is reaching 9% and teachers got a pay freeze this year! Support staff got 1.75% cost of living pay increase! It's ridiculous! Cost of living means that working people are choosing between food or energy!
We need to share our anger. We need to take action.

Free bus from Bristol departing 8.15am for NEU members. Sign up here! https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=HVFdzCqOQUeT_Z23toHe1cS_7QDQu-5KpR2y4w93PPFUOTlONjFPRURQT0FFTUlSNThORE5WTlpFOC4u&link_id=0&can_id=6a6a72ddbb1d6ea573979daa6e4cfa37&source=email-fair-pay-in-cost-of-living-crisis&email_referrer=email_1553261&email_subject=fair-pay-in-cost-of-living-crisis

💥 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT💥

NEU Bristol and NEU South Gloucestershire are leading the session 'How can Educators, Parents and Socialists Fight Neoliberalism in Schools?'

Tix here (if we haven't sold out): hdfst.uk/E72269

The only unmissable session for the whole weekend.

💥 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT💥

NEU Bristol and NEU South Gloucestershire are leading the session 'How can Educators, Parents and Socialists Fight Neoliberalism in Schools?'

Tix here (if we haven't sold out): hdfst.uk/E72269

💥 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 💥

BUS are running Organising at Work - a Bristol Union School Workshop. Organizing at work is a skill, and an intimidating prospect at first, but Bristol Union School shares the skills at winning big that workers honed over decades of struggle, to give you the confidence to fight and win.

Tickets here: hdfst.uk/E72269

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