{"id":510,"date":"2012-03-07T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=510"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:01","slug":"lead-do-academy-employee-contracts-include-a-no-strike-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/03\/lead-do-academy-employee-contracts-include-a-no-strike-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead: do academy employee contracts include a “no strike clause”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tweet<\/a><\/span>A former employee of the Ashcroft Technology Academy is interviewed on The Green Benches<\/a> blog and suggests that contracts included a “no strike clause”.<\/p>\n

The interview covers a number of employment conditions, including less holiday than in state schools; longer hours; more responsibility; and unclear career progression. It also describes a high turnover of staff:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The department I worked in had 17 teaching staff. Only 3 of that 17 remain after 2 years”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What may make this question more newsworthy is that the legality of no strike clauses is unclear, so any reporting could help lead to a change in employment law.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, Keith Ewing argues<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It begins with the International Labour Organisation’s\u00a0convention on the right to organise and bargain collectively<\/a>\u00a0of 1948, which a British Labour government was the first to ratify; followed by the\u00a0Council of Europe’s social charter<\/a>\u00a0of 1961, which a British Tory government was the first to ratify; followed, in turn, by the UN’s\u00a0international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights<\/a>\u00a0of 1966.<\/p>\n

“The British government has been told by the international human rights community that it must relax the existing legal restrictions and stop treating a lawful strike as a breach (rather than a suspension) of the worker’s contract of employment. If our law met our international obligations, it would not be possible for\u00a0bully boy Willie Walsh<\/a>\u00a0unilaterally to\u00a0withdraw the travel perks<\/a>\u00a0of BA crew, as announced this week.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone want to take this up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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