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Hundreds of school strike chiefs planning mass walk-outs are on council payrolls and cost us �13million a year
360 officials providing no public service are on the council payroll
Officials paid for by the state are co-ordinating strikes and distributing union literature
By Laura Clark
PUBLISHED: 21:25, 9 April 2012 | UPDATED: 08:47, 10 April 2012

An army of 800 union activists plotting to close the country�s schools with a series of walk-outs are being paid more than �13million of taxpayers� cash each year.

The union organisers are being bankrolled by councils to co-ordinate strike action and distribute union literature, it has emerged.

The same officials helped organise two national strikes last year which spelled disruption for millions of families.
Education Secretary Michael Gove, pictured with school pupils at the Cuckoo Hall Primary School in north east London where he announced plans to raise School standards, has called anyone anti academy conversions 'Trots'
The revelation came as the three unions � the National Union of Teachers, NASUWT and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers � threatened a fresh wave of strikes.

The biggest, the NUT, is pressing for a walk-out over pensions by the end of June. At its conference in Torquay at the weekend, it also backed strikes as early as the autumn over Coalition plans to introduce regional pay.

Activists branded the Government an �unelected dictatorship� and threatened to take inspiration from uprisings in the Middle East, calling on members to �get out on the streets�.

Pupils are recruited to spy on us during our lessons and schools are being 'run like totalitarian regimes', say teachers
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Freedom of information requests revealed officials working for the three main teaching unions number more than 800. At least 360 work full-time, providing no public service, yet have their salaries paid by taxpayers.

Fury: Gavin Williamson said the revelation that union officials are funded by the public purse will rub salt into the wounds for taxpayers
The total bill for employing the full-time and part-time organisers stands at more than �13million a year.

Gavin Williamson, Tory MP for South Staffordshire, said: �Taxpayers will be angry at the prospect of more unjustified industrial action. And it will rub salt in the wounds to learn that they are actually bankrolling union officials orchestrating these strikes.�

Speaking to NUT delegates, Tony Dowling, a teacher from Gateshead, and self-styled �revolutionary socialist�, said: �I don�t want to compare Great Britain with Egypt but it is a fact we are living in an unelected dictatorship of the Tory government.

Mr Gove has branded opponents of academy conversions �Trots�.

Highlighting her Trotskyist beliefs, Rachael Thomas, a primary headteacher from Bristol, told the conference: �Mr Gove, not every teacher, head teacher, parent or governor who opposes the move to privatisation in our schools is a �Trot�. But I am.�
Research for the Treasury shows public sector workers receive an average 8 per cent pay premium, as well as better pensions.

A Department for Education spokesman said: �It�s a bit overblown to threaten �mass resistance� when no union knows what it is actually resisting

For years the teachers' unions have been funded by local authorities: we pay for them to organise strikes and disruptions. It is time for the so-called Conservative government to stop this NOW. Stop the money - why should we fund people who are trying to ruin the education of our children? The comparison is with the independent schools, the best in the world. They have to do what parents want: provide a disciplined academic education, with good discipline, and well-behaved pupils, with plenty of sport and other extra-curricular activities. The independent schools teach real academic subjects and religious education not sex-education, global warming, the environment, and all the other politically correct rubbish.

Better still dont pay the teachers when they are not there teaching, and when I say teaching I dont mean real teaching like they did 50 years ago.

thomas davison · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:30 am Post subject:

Now teachers call for strike over scrapping of long summer break, saying that six week holiday is 'essential'Slashing the summer break could damage teachers' wellbeing and children's learning, the NUT claims
Longer breaks needed to counter �excessive� workloads
Members of the National Union of Teachers branded the plans �scandalous�
By Kevin Widdop
PUBLISHED: 16:10, 10 April 2012 | UPDATED: 00:37, 11 April 2012

Teachers yesterday threatened strikes on a new front � in defence of �essential� six-week summer holidays.
They vowed to resist attempts to introduce four-week holidays, insisting longer breaks were needed to counter �excessive� workloads.
Both Prime Minister David Cameron and Education Secretary Michael Gove have signalled support for a shorter summer holiday and longer school day.
School's out? National or local proposals to cut the six-week summer break will be opposed by the NUT (File picture)
Nottingham has become the first local authority in the country to propose switching all its schools from a traditional three-term calendar to five terms, with a four-week summer break.
But members of the National Union of Teachers branded the plans �scandalous� and approved campaigns � including walkouts � to halt them.

The union, with nearly 300,000 active members, has already used its annual Easter conference to back industrial action over pay, pensions, academies, free schools, Ofsted inspections and a new reading test for five-year-olds.
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Most strike resolutions were passed with little or no opposition, fuelling claims that hardline Trotskyists are growing in influence over the country�s biggest classroom union.
Delegates heard from self-styled �revolutionary socialists� demanding �mass resistance on the streets� to overthrow a so-called Coalition �dictatorship�.
Militants pressed the union�s leadership for a national strike to be staged on May 10 over cuts to pensions, despite claims it would disrupt preparations for national tests the week after.
In the latest debate, delegates also backed �campaigns, up to and including national ballots for both non-strike sanctions and strike action� to fight �excessive workload�.
These workload concerns include plans in some areas to reorganise the school year, the conference was told.

NUT members in Nottingham have already staged a one-day strike over the plans, with two more due later this month.
Walk out: Teachers in Nottingham staged a one-day protest recently as proposals for a cut to the school summer holiday were raised (File picture)
Sheena Wheatley, secretary of the NUT�s Nottingham branch, claimed the five-term year proposals �represent a major attack on our conditions of service�.
Critics of the current school year say a shorter summer holiday would boost standards.

But delegates at the NUT�s annual conference in Torquay dismissed the claims. Tom Unterrainer, president of the NUT�s Nottingham branch, said:
�We�ve looked for rigorous academic research which points to the fact that learning loss takes place. There is none.�

NUT members passed a resolution saying that �demands on teachers are so high during term-time that the longer summer break is an essential factor in a teacher�s management of excessive workload and work stress�.
John Illingworth, former national president of the NUT, said: �If this goes ahead, we in Nottingham will have the shortest school summer break in the world, at just over four weeks.
�It�s true that South Korea have only five weeks, and a much longer working day. They also have the highest child suicide rate in the world.�

But a Department for Education spokesman said: �The fact is we have inherited a school year designed for children in the 1900s not the 21st century, so it�s right that heads are seizing the initiative and changing it.

Nice.....erm.....work if you can get it. They are on a extremely good thing and ought to keep a low profile. Are they just trying to wind everyone else up. Go on strike during the six weeks you are doing all this alleged work.

4 weeks holiday during the summer months is long enough. what about the two weeks at Easter then the two weeks in October the two weeks at Christmas. then on top of all that there are the public holidays and the in service days. Stop whining teachers and get back to work what you are paid to do and teach our children properly.