As Green Party Trade Union Liaison Officer for Brent and
for the London Federation of Green Parties, I am both pleased and sad to be sending
support to the teachers at The Village School in Kingsbury for a second time.
I am pleased to convey the support of the Green Party to Trades
unionists who oppose academisations, and because, as a UCU member, I have the
greatest respect for the NEU members who are now taking strike action again to
protect a public education service for the people of Brent which large amounts
of council resources have been paid to develop.
I am saddened that the strike is now taking place because
of the intransigence of the School
Governors and their Chair, (who is also the Brent Labour Group whip), and the
refusal of the Brent Labour Leader Muhammed Butt to clearly oppose academisation
of the Village School; although it is becoming increasingly apparent that academisation
is an expensive and unworkable policy which is of minimal benefit to education.
(https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/27/schools-academy-trusts-warn-pay-staffing-public-spending)
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