Teaching unions have accused ministers of “daylight robbery” after a new survey by the Trades Union Congress revealed that teachers perform the most unpaid overtime of any profession.
The TUC survey – published to mark its Work Your Proper Hours Day on Friday – found that two out of five teaching staff in the UK worked 26 hours for free each week, for a combined 5.5m hours a year.
Patrick Roach, the general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said it was “shameful evidence” that the government was relying on free labour rather than investing in schools and colleges.
“The fact that teachers are losing out on average by £15,000 a year in unpaid overtime is nothing less than daylight robbery,” Roach said.
Teachers are seeing their workloads piled higher and higher, and with cuts to support staff and cuts to other children’s services, teachers are now working around the clock.
“Our latest research found that more than half of teachers polled worked over 50 hours a week, with some working more than 70 hours. This is unsustainable and unacceptable.
“World-class education cannot be built off the backs of overworked and underpaid teachers and headteachers.”
The figures come as the Department for Education in England will miss its deadline for making its submission to the annual pay round, leading to protests by school leaders over the potential delays in reaching a settlement.
The TUC survey placed teachers ahead of chief executives, managers and directors for the number of hours they worked.
My SO is a teacher and works at least 8 hours over the weekend. And on weekdays, is at work by 7am and comes home at 7pm and on a contract that’s supposed to be only 40 hrs per week. When I hear the shit teachers have to do extra to teaching (seriously, teachers spend so much time doing things that’s not even on their job description) it just makes my blood boil. A. That the current generation of parents don’t seem to know how to discipline their kids and think that it’s a teacher’s job to parent them and teach them good behaviour and manners, and b. The state has completely failed the school system
My mom used to be a teacher. She’d wake up at 5am to work early, she’d get home at 6/7pm most nights then spend the next minimum 5hrs planning the next day and marking books. She’s way happier as a tutor now
I don’t know how teachers aren’t driven mad with marking, just the thought tires me out.
You never once sit there as a teenager and consider the teacher, their life, because they’re older than you and being given time by older people is just how childhood is. You never think of a teacher, ‘thanks for doing this job’.
The time given is rarely particular good though, but it’s still time.
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Teaching unions have accused ministers of “daylight robbery” after a new survey by the Trades Union Congress revealed that teachers perform the most unpaid overtime of any profession.
The TUC survey – published to mark its Work Your Proper Hours Day on Friday – found that two out of five teaching staff in the UK worked 26 hours for free each week, for a combined 5.5m hours a year.
Patrick Roach, the general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said it was “shameful evidence” that the government was relying on free labour rather than investing in schools and colleges.
“The fact that teachers are losing out on average by £15,000 a year in unpaid overtime is nothing less than daylight robbery,” Roach said.
Teachers are seeing their workloads piled higher and higher, and with cuts to support staff and cuts to other children’s services, teachers are now working around the clock.
“Our latest research found that more than half of teachers polled worked over 50 hours a week, with some working more than 70 hours. This is unsustainable and unacceptable.
“World-class education cannot be built off the backs of overworked and underpaid teachers and headteachers.”
The figures come as the Department for Education in England will miss its deadline for making its submission to the annual pay round, leading to protests by school leaders over the potential delays in reaching a settlement.
The TUC survey placed teachers ahead of chief executives, managers and directors for the number of hours they worked.
My SO is a teacher and works at least 8 hours over the weekend. And on weekdays, is at work by 7am and comes home at 7pm and on a contract that’s supposed to be only 40 hrs per week. When I hear the shit teachers have to do extra to teaching (seriously, teachers spend so much time doing things that’s not even on their job description) it just makes my blood boil. A. That the current generation of parents don’t seem to know how to discipline their kids and think that it’s a teacher’s job to parent them and teach them good behaviour and manners, and b. The state has completely failed the school system
My mom used to be a teacher. She’d wake up at 5am to work early, she’d get home at 6/7pm most nights then spend the next minimum 5hrs planning the next day and marking books. She’s way happier as a tutor now
I don’t know how teachers aren’t driven mad with marking, just the thought tires me out.
You never once sit there as a teenager and consider the teacher, their life, because they’re older than you and being given time by older people is just how childhood is. You never think of a teacher, ‘thanks for doing this job’.
The time given is rarely particular good though, but it’s still time.