No “youth guarantee”  without more college funding, says UCU

Labour must give college teachers a pay rise to meet its “youth guarantee” said the University and College Union (UCU) today (Tuesday), in response to Keir Starmer's speech at Labour Conference.

UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: ‘We welcome Keir Starmer's desire to get young people into good jobs, but you cannot skill up the next generation so long as college workers are severely underpaid.

‘College teachers earn much less than their counterparts in schools. If Labour is serious about its youth guarantee, it needs to resolve this pay disparity. Labour's decade of national renewal will be impossible without huge public investment in colleges and universities, the foundation stones of growth and innovation.'