Posted by Wee Sniffer.
No not the street corner bullies this time but the COSLA/Scottish Government proposals to further decimate conditions of service for those working in Education.
Sick pay reduced to 90% for 6 months and 45% thereafter.
Supply Teachers to be paid on Scale Point 1.
Maternity leave slashed.
Probationer Induction scheme to support new teachers abolished.
Two year pay freeze.
WE NEED TEACHERS.
A total of £81 million ripped from the most vulnerable education workers creates a two tier workforce encouraging greater casualisation, undermining children’s opportunities.
These proposals must not be the only thing we reject. Give Swinney at Holyrood , Watters at COSLA and the rest their 90 days redundancy notice! They are in breech of contract eroding schooling conditions where even more children will fail to thrive. Why use energy fire fighting when we can make the sources take the hit for these inhumane proposals that centre on the weakest without a voice. We need to identify these proposals as red herrings and redirect this REJECT campaign to a DESELECT campaign. Give them their P45 at the soonest possible opportunity, loud and clear.
SOLIDARITY.
We know that cuts like these to support Bank Bailouts create cycles of debt further lining the pockets of those same Bankers. Its charades, these proposals are ideological, they are about changing the system for good, not just robbing Peter to pay Paul. Reject these COSLA/Scottish Government proposals but industrial action must target the bullies who are sticking the boot in, in the first place, here and in Westminster.
