Nursery World - Term-time support workers

(Photograph) - Term-time support workers demonstrated outside Huddersfield Town Hall in West Yorkshire last week to lobby their employers for holiday pay. The Kirklees branch of public service union Unison organised the demonstration (News, 30 August) and several spokespeople, including a teaching assistant, addressed the council meeting. Councillors agreed to support a pay review so that the anomaly of staff being paid for only 44 weeks of the year could be rectified, but they said it would have to be a self-financing package. A Unison spokesperson said, 'We are pleased that the councillors have decided to support the campaigners and clearly all the councillors are in support of a better deal for term-time workers. However, we need more than words to fund this deal. The campaigning will go on both at local and national level.' Photo Steve Doherty

Photo Steve Doherty

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