Pay Campaign

8th July

The NEU is campaigning for inflation plus cost of living pay increases for teachers, support staff and other educators. Pay is a crucial part of our campaign to Value Education, Value Educators.

NEU campaign aims:

• Protect educators against the impact of the cost-of-living crisis.
• Fully funded and inflation-plus increases across all teacher pay scales to protect living standards against rising inflation and start to recover the real terms pay losses since 2010.
• Fully funded pay increases for all educators to protect living standards and recover the real terms pay losses since 2010.
• Pay progression for all eligible staff and removal of PRP.
• All education employers implement fair national pay scales, fair pay levels and automatic pay progression.

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Something in the Air

8th July

Throughout the Covid pandemic there has rightly been a strong emphasis on the importance of face coverings and ventilation. Microbes that cause respiratory illnesses like Covid need to enter the respiratory system and this happens most easily when infected droplets and aerosol particles are inhaled. A face covering provides a barrier to these, and ventilation allows fresh air to dilute and disperse the aerosol. This is a lesson that mustn't be forgotten. It might be extreme to wear a mask to prevent a cold, but good ventilation will certainly mean that fewer people suffer with illnesses, particularly in winter.

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