Stop Fire and Rehire ar Woodfield School in Kingsbury - support the strikers

 

One of the many strike days at Woodfield School last winter- strikers addressed by Daniel Kebede (NEU General Secretary) 

 

Strikes return to Woodfield School in Kingsbury following the Academy Trust that runs the school moving to Fire and Rehire support staff.  Fire and Rehire is the practice by bad employers of sacking staff and then re-employing staff  on worse wages and conditions of service. Barry Gardiner, MP for Brent North, was a leading campaigner calling for the practice to be outlawed.

 

Woodfield, is part of a small trust called Compass Learning. The NEU members (there’s about 70 of them) were out on strike in earlier in the academic year as the school were planning to cut hours, and therefore pay,  for Lead Learning Assistants (support staff members). The teachers also struck to defend their colleagues.

A spokesperson for Brent NEU said:

 

After 13 days of the most fun and lively picket lines management were forced to agree to go ACAS. They spent a day there, but the best they could offer was free school dinners and few extra hours. But stuck to the plan to cut hours across the board. 

Our members described the offer of schools dinners as being like ‘throwing scraps to the dogs’. 

Lead Learning Assistants are responsible for supporting the behaviour of teenagers with very complex needs who can become highly disregulated and who often live with complex mental health challenges. They are highly skilled workers. 

After ACAS and second round of offering voluntary redundancies/flexible working management announced that they were moving to fire and rehire. We have rebooted and are ready to resume strike action on June 2nd. 

The trust have almost £4 million in the bank. The CEO is on £120, 000. They are choosing to break low paid essential workers, rather than cut what they are ‘top slicing’ for their salaries and comfy offices. 

The NEU has informed Compass Learning of a series of strike days throughout June and July starting on June 1st.

  

STOP FIRE AND REHIRE AT WOODFIELD SCHOOL

✍️Write to Chair of Trustees Sebastian Oram and demand an end to fire and rehire at Woodfields School in Brent: LINK



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