Beal High School picket line May 2021, photo Glenn Kelly

Beal High School picket line May 2021, photo Glenn Kelly   (Click to enlarge: opens in new window)

Beal High School workers, who have taken two rounds of strike action against a punitive, two-tier sick pay policy, are voting to suspend their current action after progress in negotiations.

Staff at Beal – England’s largest secondary with over 2,600 students – have been demanding: don’t punish the sick!

Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union says: “We had been demanding that ill-health should be separated from the disciplinary process and the ending of a two-tier ill health policy. Looks like we have won on both demands.”

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