Why is the NUT balloting?

below-inflation pay increases every year since 2005

further below-inflation increases proposed for 2008, 2009 and 2010

the result? real terms pay cuts, affecting every teacher and hitting the youngest hardest

The Government’s proposals

September 2008 – pay increase of 2.45% September 2009 and September 2010 – further

increases of 2.3% Inner and Outer London – slightly higher

increases BUT still below inflation nothing to restore the pay losses in 2006 and

2007

Fair pay for teachers???

2005 pay increase - 3.25% (staged) below inflation

2006 & 2007 pay increases - 2.5% inflation at 3.6% and 4.1%

2008 proposed pay increase inflation currently 4.1%

How much have we lost?

if pay had matched inflation… pay for NQTs would be £1000 p.a higher pay for UPS3 teachers would be over £1600 p.a

higher pay for leadership teachers would be higher by

£2000 or morecumulative pay loss for UPS3 teacher almost £4000 by the end of next year and rising

Private sector pay

no Government pay limit… average earnings rising by over 4% chief executives’ pay up by 37% - now 100 times

average earnings bonus payments up 30% to £14 billion pounds

Teachers losing out

starting pay teachers get almost £3,000 less than in

comparable professions

pay progression 25 per cent for teachers over first 3 years

(M1 to M4) over 50 per cent for other graduates

Did you know?

50% of NQTs leave the profession within 3 years of taking up their first job

(Source: Teacher Development Agency)

Teachers losing out

Upper Pay Scale points 4 and 5 introduced in 1999 – abolished in 2004 100,000 teachers on UPS3 have lost a potential

£3,400 p.a extra 26 teachers on the “replacement” ETS

Teachers losing out

TLR payments system already 30,000 fewer teachers hold

responsibility payments more will lose when the system is fully

implemented and safeguarding ends pay losses from £1638 to £11,275 p.a

Teachers losing out

housing costs teachers on average pay won’t get a mortgage

for the average house in over 3/4 of towns they won’t even get a mortgage for the average

flat in almost half of towns mortgage repayments and rent are also rising

Teachers losing out

Teachers’ workload

a continuing major problem real terms pay cuts but no cuts in workload most primary and secondary teachers still work

50+ hours per week

Who is being balloted?

all NUT members covered by the STPCD teachers in primary, secondary and special schools teachers in PRUs and centrally employed teachers foundation & VA schools included academies to be considered individually Sixth form colleges & Soulbury members not included at

this stage

The ballot timetable

28 February ballot opens

31 March ballot closes

24 April planned one day strike

Help the NUT’s campaign

vote “yes” in the ballot organise a meeting in your school and persuade

your NUT colleagues to vote “yes” in the ballot send an e-mail message to your MP – go to

www.teachers.org.uk