Birmingham school workers with the GMB Union announce strikes during SATs week
1500 will take part from 35 schools in the city.
GMB Union has today announced that school support workers in thirty-five Birmingham schools will take strike action during SATS exam weeks.
Strike action will take place on Tuesday 14 May, with as many as 1500 workers joining the action across thirty-five schools.
Workers including Teaching Assistants, catering staff and grounds maintenance workers will join the action.
The strike action comes as Birmingham City Council bosses have been slammed for delay’s in settling equal pay claims lodged by women workers at the authority.
The authority is due back in court this week as talks to resolve settlement stalled.
Alice Reynolds, GMB Organiser, said:
“Birmingham’s equal pay crisis only ends when council bosses’ hand back the wages they have stolen from women workers.
“Birmingham City Council has been stealing wages from these workers for years and now they’re refusing to pay it back.
“Without Teaching Assistants and school support workers, these schools cannot run.
“Taking strike action is always a last resort, but these workers have had enough of council delays and broken promises”.