02/01/2021
HK teachers needs to decide too.....
Teachers are set to refuse to go back to school under plans from the UK's biggest teaching union to tell its members to stay at home.
The National Education Union (NEU) said it will advise its members of their legal right not to have to work in an unsafe environment.
Dr Mary Bousted, the union's joint general secretary, said: 'Whilst we are calling on the Government to take the right steps as a responsible union we cannot simply agree that the Government's wrong steps should be implemented.
'That is why we are doing our job as a union by informing our members that they have a legal right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions which are a danger to their health and to the health of their school communities and more generally.'
The general secretary of the NASUWT union, Dr Patrick Roach, also called for an immediate nationwide move to remote education due to safety concerns.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) has started preliminary steps in legal proceedings against the Department for Education and is awaiting the Government's response.
The union is also preparing to advise headteachers not to take action against employees who decline to return to work, reports The Observer.
Teachers are set to refuse to go back to school under plans from the UK's biggest teaching union to tell its members to stay at home.
The National Education Union (NEU) said it will advise its members of their legal right not to have to work in an unsafe environment.
Dr Mary Bousted, the union's joint general secretary, said: 'Whilst we are calling on the Government to take the right steps as a responsible union we cannot simply agree that the Government's wrong steps should be implemented.
'That is why we are doing our job as a union by informing our members that they have a legal right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions which are a danger to their health and to the health of their school communities and more generally.'
The general secretary of the NASUWT union, Dr Patrick Roach, also called for an immediate nationwide move to remote education due to safety concerns.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) has started preliminary steps in legal proceedings against the Department for Education and is awaiting the Government's response.
The union is also preparing to advise headteachers not to take action against employees who decline to return to work, reports The Observer.