Members at The Charter Schools Educational Trust have been in dispute for five months, fighting against unacceptable pay and maternity policies, and a failure to recognise the NEU in collective bargaining.
Over 300 members have taken two days of strike action across nine schools in Lambeth and Southwark.
Following a breakthrough earlier this week, the trust has agreed:
- A pay policy which aligns with STPCD (the previous policy had no automatic progression and a six-point scale for teachers on the upper pay scale).
- A trade union recognition agreement which has full bargaining rights and secures £15,000+ towards trade union facilities time per year for Southwark and Lambeth.
- An increase in maternity pay, with an extra week and a half of full pay paid to both teachers and support staff, which equates to an additional £1,000 for an M6 teacher.
The deal was put to members – they overwhelmingly voted to accept and the dispute has been resolved.
When we fight, we win! Well done to all those standing up in their schools.