In reaction to a Department of Public Expenditure and Reform review of allowances, a string of allowances were abolished and pay reductions were made.The INTO has organised nationwide meetings with NQTs. These meetings will be vital to the response in the protection of new entrant pay. Attendance at the meetings will be the sign of a fightback and and an intension to resist further pay slashes, already mounting up to 27.06%.
INTO District 14 and 15 will host a joint meeting on Wednesday 3rd of October at 7pm. This will provide a chance, with Michael Taft (UNITE Economist) as guest speaker to discuss alternatives.
Other Nationwide meetings can be found here
We encourage any NQTs to attend the meetings, have their voice heard and hear the supportive voices of other. It will be our collective oppostion that will form a fightback and a drive to say 'No More'. Enough is certainly enough and the message needs to be sent loud and clear that NQTs have sucked up more than enough of the pain.
The meetings will provide an opportunity to form a strategy against the Government's tactics of dismantling the integrity of teachers' pay. The INTO Leadership need to hear the opinions of their members, and more importantly need to hear the voices of their newest and most vulnerable members. With a strong NQT body in attendance the signal will be clear that something has to be done.
