It was sad to say goodbye yesterday to four wonderful colleagues who've delivered time and time again for members over many, many cumulative years.

Good luck and best wishes to Bora, Jason, Michelle and Pauline.

You'll be missed ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Another early Saturday start to deliver Conference Delegate training to a group of members who are contemplating seeking nominations to #NEU2026 in Brighton.

Members at Outwood Academy, Hindley have begun a rolling programme of six days strike action over proposals to impose a 30-minute. extension to the school day.

Fourteen other schools in the @OGATrust across England are also involved.

Well, #NEU2025 is complete

Safe journey home and have a good Bank Holiday weekend.

The formal business of #NEU2025 is complete - with some very big decisions which will require a great deal of hard work to implement.

We will rise to that challenge together.

The General Secretary is now addressing conference and talking about the importance of leveraging our power.

The final session of #NEU2025 is opened with a debate about establishing an annual conference of the union's women members.

Excellent, passionate and moving speech by Donna, a delegate from Bolton, in the debate about work-related stress (Motion 15) at #NEU2025.

Day 3 of #NEU2025 underway with an urgency debate about school improvement in light of the coroner's identification of Ofsted and their role in the tragic death of Ruth Parry.

#AbolishOfsted

Opening the session on International Solidarity at #NEU2025, Sue Piper from Oldham District moves an important motion on Palestine 🇵🇸.

Day 2 of #NEU2025 gets underway with a busy agenda ahead of delegates.

#HillsboroughLawNow

#JFT97

Business is underway at #NEU2025 after the preliminaries were completed earlier this morning.

We're currently debating Assessment, curriculum and accountability.

Members at St Matthew's Primary in Bolton are back on the picket line this week after our suspension of the last round of strikes in good faith, was met merely with more feet dragging by Bolton Council.

#ValueEducators

Members have been out early on the picket line at St Matthew's Primary School in Bolton.

This is the first of a planned six days of action over pay implementation issues and management cultures.

#ValueEducators

Honoured to be invited once more to read testimony at Merseyside #HMD on behalf of @NEUnion.

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This year, I'll be recounting the memories of Colonel Grigori Elisavetski of the Red Army's 100th Infantry Division, one of the first liberators of Auschwitz.

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Our members across eight Sixth Form Colleges in the region hit the picket lines again tomorrow and on 6th and 7th February in their dispute over pay.

We're planning a central Manchester Strike Rally on the last of those dates.

More information to follow next week.

#PayUp24