Strikes loom at Bristol schools as staff demand thousands in back pay View Image

School support workers at a group of academies in the South West are set to strike this week in a dispute over delayed pay increases, according to public sector union UNISON.

Teaching assistants, administrators, caretakers, librarians and other support staff employed by Cathedral Schools Trust will walk out on Wednesday, November 5, and Thursday, November 6, in a row over the trust's past failure to implement national pay awards on time.

UNISON says that staff at schools across Bristol and North Somerset have been losing out on several months’ worth of pay rises each year, due to the trust's practice of applying wage increases from September rather than April, when they are formally agreed.

Although th

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