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To: Neil Blundell
Fair Pay Now for Cathedral Schools Trust Staff
We are the support staff of Cathedral Schools Trust.
Teaching assistants, administrators, librarians, finance officers, caretakers, caterers and more. We are the backbone of our schools, keeping them running and supporting every child’s learning and wellbeing.
Teaching assistants, administrators, librarians, finance officers, caretakers, caterers and more. We are the backbone of our schools, keeping them running and supporting every child’s learning and wellbeing.
But for sixteen years, Cathedral Schools Trust has refused to sign up to nationally agreed NJC pay and conditions. Every year, our pay award has been delayed by five months, leaving us hundreds of pounds worse off than school staff across the country. For many of us, that is thousands lost.
The Trust’s leadership has now agreed to pay on time in future and adopt NJC pay and condtions. But that does not fix years of unfair treatment or pay we have already lost, while seven executives share more than £1m in salaries.
We call on Cathedral Schools Trust to pay back the wages we have lost over the past five years.
Support staff are vital to children’s education. Our working conditions are their learning conditions.
Stand with us. Sign the petition and demand Cathedral Schools Trust treat staff fairly.
Why is this important?
Without a commitment to backpay, we will be forced to take action. We do not take strike action lightly. But after years of being ignored, we have been left with no choice.