NURSES stances. Service Journal speculates that at least 100,000 staff - ten percent of the workforce - could actually wind up worse off as a result of the new packSome will face a lengthened working week (which will be standardised at 37 hours), others will be required to work new shift patterns and implement
The jury (and the calculators) are still out on the proposals as we go to press. Socialist Resistance will carry a detailed analysis of this and other NHS changes in our next issue. assistants to replace teachers in the classroom, initially to cover for absences and to allow teachers time off for marking and preparation.
The NAS / UWT and the ATL have signaled their willingness to allow teaching assistants to take classes in some circumThe NUT has so far correctly argued that this would undermine teachers' pay. There can be little doubt that the Government is using the issue of workload and teacher shortage to smuggle in its long-term plan of cheapening the teaching workforce and introducing Taylorist' methods - in which teachers would plan and prepare lessons, classroom assistants would deliver them
The losers in this would not just be teachers but classroom assistants - and thousands of children who would receive an even more reductive education.
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