County Durham teaching assistants protest outside County Hall in Durham City
MY advice to the teaching assistants in County Durham regarding the new offer is: don’t touch it with a bargepole.
It’s a deeply cynical attempt to trick you into betraying not just your colleagues but yourselves.
In short, it stinks, and if you accept you will live to regret it – bitterly.
As for Unison’s stance on the issue, it stinks too: what kind of union is it that recommends its members to do the dirty on their fellow workers?
Tony Kelly, Crook
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