Conference blog: supply teachers

Kathy Bennetts-Brown:


Supply teachers depend on he solidarity of their full-time colleagues. They aree a dispersed workforce. Where colleagues can they should support situations where suply teachers are being paid on national pay scales

The loss of pension contributions will hit women hardest again. They are still the main carers in society and often choose to supply teach at times when they need to combine the role of earner and carer.
There is no divide between supply teachers and full-time teachers. Supply teacherrs. Supply teachers move into full time teaching and full-timerrs move into supply.

No worker in education should be faced with the situation of a thirty pound pay cut and loss of pension rights more-or-less overrnight. yet this happened to West Sussex supply teacherrs recently.

(Conference didn't reach the WSTA amendment on supply teachers but the NUT does now have a policy of supporting supply teachers and members in West Sussex can push for supply teachers to get teachers' pay and conditions by being directly employed by the school)

Amtrit (Brontosaurus) Bhogal:

Thank you for bringing the plight of the dying breed (supply teachers) to the forefront. But quicker action is necessary. We are almost extinct!