The NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, is balloting members at Woodhouse Business & Enterprise College in Tamworth for industrial action over proposals to turn the school into an academy.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: “In addition to concerns about the academy proposal, the NASUWT has serious concerns about the track record of Landau Forte, the proposed sponsor for this school. Evidence shows they are hostile to trade unions, fail to apply national pay and conditions standards and appear impervious to concerns about conditions of service.
“Given this history, the plan to concentrate all sixth-form provision at the academy is deeply worrying. Parental choice will be limited and the local authority will lose direct control of this important service.
“Public services must remain in public hands and not be hived off to private companies who are free to determine teacher’s pay and conditions.
"This ballot for action is a principled and important stand to protect a state school from being handed over to an external organisation and to protect and defend teachers' national pay and conditions of service and the right to union recognition.”
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