{"id":10529,"date":"2024-03-21T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cardiffnewsplus\/?p=10529"},"modified":"2024-03-21T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:49:50","slug":"teachers-at-cathedral-school-strike-over-pensions-and-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cardiffnewsplus\/teachers-at-cathedral-school-strike-over-pensions-and-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers at Cathedral School strike over pensions and pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In November the school introduced a policy which denied them access to the teacher pension scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Teachers in Llandaff are picketing outside Cathedral School for the third time. They are calling for their pay and pensions to be in line with the state sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The privately run school introduced a new policy cutting them off from their existing pension scheme. The teachers were asked to choose between the scheme provided by the school or except lower pay in order to keep the current pension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catrin Ellis-Owen, the head of sixth form has been teaching in the school for 11 years. She says that she is disappointed, ” Striking is not anything I would ever want to do, but I think it is important that we stand up for our rights, and inform people the reality of what it is like to be a teacher at Cathedral School”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catrin says that she loves teaching at the school and has amazing colleagues and it makes her sad that the school doesn’t offer a fair pay. ” We are the best performing school in Wales, and it comes because of excellent, expert teaching and therefore we deserve reasonable pay”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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