NEXT GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON 18TH MAY 2019 AT THE HOLIDAY INN, AYLESBURRY.

NEU Buckinghamshire District AGM 30th March 2019 Agenda 1. President’s Welcome 2. Apologies for absence 3. Minutes of last meeting 9th February 2019 4. Matters arising not elsewhere on the agenda 5. Election of officers (table below) i. President ii. Vice President iii. Secretaries iv. Assistant Secretary (minutes) v. Treasurer vi. Health and Safety Officer vii. Equalities Officer viii. Members of Committee (minimum of 6 recommended) ix. Appointment of Auditors 6. Treasurer’s report, presentation of accounts and budget plan 7. Executive Member’s Report 8. Honoraria Survey 9. Other reports 10. Any other business. Please notify secretary in advance of the start of the meeting

National Education Union Buckinghamshire Annual General Meeting Saturday 30th March 2019 Venue: The Bell, London Road, Aston Clinton. HP22 5HP Free Parking Time: 11am This will be the first AGM of the NEU Buckinghamshire District. Our executive member will be in attendance. The NUT and ATL have been advocates for professional unity for many years. Our goal for a strong unified profession and a powerful union which will be a significant force for everyone who works in education has arrived! The National education Union has existed for some time and as the NUT and ATL pass into history we welcome members old and new and those who will join us. Our members are the future of education.

New Web Sites

The local Associations and Division now have new sites. Future posts will be on these.Please log in regularly to find out about meetings, events and other current issues.

Buckinghamshire Division
https://local.teachers.org.uk/buckinghamshire

High Wycombe Association
https://local.teachers.org.uk/highwycombe/

Amersham and Chesham Association
https://local.teachers.org.uk/amershamcheshamnut/

Safeguarding Ends December 2008

The NUT seeks to protect members against pay cuts from loss of safeguarding through recruitment and retention payments to maintain pay at the same level as previously. Such payments are legally permissible, since the governing body’s decision will be that the payment is necessary to retain the teacher and avoid the risk that they will look for employment elsewhere as a result of the loss of safeguarding. Such payments are limited to three years in the first instance but may be renewed on the same basis.

NUT advice on MA safeguarding is available at www.teachers.org.uk.

REMOVAL OF SAFEGUARDING: IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS

The NUT’s position is that teachers who lose MA safeguarding should not be required to undertake any responsibility for which they previously received an MA unless an appropriate TLR payment is made.

Some teachers will have known since December 2005 that they will lose their MA safeguarding and will not receive a TLR payment. They may or may not have known that they will be expected to carry on with those responsibilities.

Some teachers will only now encounter proposals to reorganise staffing structures and withdraw TLR payments, either before or after they start to be paid. In all such situations, casework may arise.

The Union will be advising such members - “Don’t Work for Free”.

Teachers on UPS3

Some head teachers continue to argue that UPS3 teachers can be required to undertake additional work without appropriate TLR payments, simply because they are on UPS3. This is simply not the case.

The professional responsibilities for classroom teachers on the Upper Pay Scale are identical to those for teachers on the Main Scale. There is no provision which permits greater demands to be made upon classroom teachers on the basis of their position on the pay scale, be that M6, UPS1 or UPS3. The criteria for payment of TLR payments apply equally to all classroom teachers so that any responsibility should attract the same level of additional payment whoever undertakes that responsibility.

No teacher, therefore, may be required to undertake additional responsibilities without an appropriate TLR payment simply on the basis they are on UPS3 or the Upper Pay Scale.

Strike Day

I am due to attend a professional development course on the day of action. Should I attend?

The Union advises that you should attend as normal any course intended for your own professional development, in particular where fees have already been incurred by the school or authority. You may, however, wish to donate a day’s pay to the Teacher Support Network or any hardship fund established by your local association. The Union asks you not to attend work at the school if your head teacher instructs you not to attend the course.

What to do on April 24th

WITHDRAW YOUR LABOUR

Join your colleagues at the rally in LONDON.

Defend education - the professional response.
No pay cuts for
teachers!
Year on year pay cuts mean:
1. Teachers and their families facing a downwards spiral
in their income
2. Younger teachers particularly facing
accumulating debt
3. Encouragement to “compete” with other
teachers for performance related pay, inadequate
TLRs etc
4. Discouragement to young graduates to join the
teaching profession and resulting in teacher
shortages, increasing class sizes, lack of personal attention for pupils and
increase in workload and working hours.

To defend education, to win a good local
state school for every community, we
have to defend teachers’ pay.
It’s never an easy decision to strike
– but we are left with no alternative.
It’s the professional thing to do!