Talk:Oasis Charitable Trust

The dark side of Oasis is their vicious anti-unio stance:

Flags flew, passing cars beeped support and spirits were high on the picket line outside Oasis Academy MediaCityUK yesterday as teachers from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and NASUWT The Teachers’ Union, staged a fourth day of strikes against the loss of 13 teaching staff.

Seven of the staff have now either got fixed up with other jobs or taken voluntary redundancy but six teachers are being forced to leave before Christmas at the former Hope High School on Eccles Old Road.

Now, timetables for pupils doing GCSEs next spring will be thrown into chaos, as the teachers’ trade unions insist that Oasis could have solved the dispute for what is, in the company’s terms, a minimal amount of money.

“We had a phone conference with the head of Oasis and they led us to believe there was a possibility of a settlement” says Joe Langley from NASUWT

“At first Oasis said that it would cost £280,000 to keep our members on at the school until August but we got it down to £115,000″ he explains “But the Government wouldn’t put up any money and neither would Oasis, whose budget is millions of pounds. For them, £115,000 is peanuts but they wouldn’t go the extra 500 yards to do it.

“It’s ended up with six of my members being made redundant at Christmas and it’s a disaster” he adds “They’re not going to get another job in January, and for the kids, they’ve got to completely re-jig their timetable half way through the year. This is on the back of the best results this school has ever had last June and moving into a brand new school in September. It’s going to wreck the place. They couldn’t manage a whelk stall this lot.”

Meanwhile, NUT rep, Lesley Auger, says that Oasis could have transferred surpluses from its other schools to solve the crisis but have refused…