Posted on: 9 October 2025

Dear Members,

We have received a final pay offer from United Learning Trust for 2025/26.

This offer is for those members directly employed on a United Learning Contract. If you are on a TUPE contract this offer does not apply to you.

The 2025 United Learning Academy Support Staff Annual Pay offer is for one year and is as follows:

• With effect from 1^st September 2025, a 3.2% increase on all support staff salaries.
• The above increase would result in a minimum FTE pay rate of £24,978 per annum (£12.81 per hour) outside London, £28,645 per annum (£14.69 per hour) in Outer London, and £30,239 per annum (£15.50 per hour) in Inner London, with effect from 1^st September 2025.
• The offer would result in an increase to the minimum FTE rate of pay for pupil-facing support staff to £25,718 per annum (£13.19 per hour) outside London, £29,490 per annum (£15.12 per hour) in Outer London and £31,119 per annum (£15.96 per hour) in Inner London, with effect from 1^st September 2025.

For a summary of the employer’s response to our pay claim, and for details of the pay ballot, please read this bulletin:

ult-ballot-comms-to-members-online.pdf 

Kind regards,

Stacey Booth

National Officer

Posted on: 9 April 2025

Dear Members,

Thank you for your engagement with the United Learning Trust survey. This year’s pay claim has been compiled and submitted to the trust today based on the feedback you provided.

You can read the pay claim here: 202526-united-learning-trust-pay-claim-final.pdf.

This pay claim is for all ULT members not covered by TUPE arrangements, this means those members who are contractually employed on ULT pay and conditions.

ULT and the joint trade unions (GMB and Unison) will be meeting to discuss the claim in the coming weeks and any further updates will follow in due course.

If you have received this information in error, it might be that we do not hold accurate data for you and would strongly advise that, to prevent any future issues, you update your details through the My GMB section of the website, by logging in at Make Work Better | GMB Union.

If your employment has changed you will be unable to amend that on-line and would advise that you contact your GMB regional office. You can find your office’s contact details here: GMB Regions | GMB Union.

Finally, if you have any other questions or concerns, please e-mail schools@gmb.org.uk and we will respond to you directly.

Thanks,

Stacey Booth

GMB National Officer for United Learning Trust

Posted on: 25 October 2024

Dear Members,

The United Learning Trust 2024/25 pay ballot. Members have voted to accept the offer. Please see the results below:

Accept – 66%

Reject – 34%

We will notify your employer of the result and request that they implement the pay deal as soon as possible.

This pay deal is for all ULT members not covered by TUPE arrangements, this means those members who are contractually employed on ULT pay and conditions.

Kind regards,

Stacey Booth

National Officer

Posted on: 7 October 2024

Dear Members,

We have now received a final pay offer from United Learning Trust, which you can read here ul-academy-support-staff-pay-offer-2024-revised.pdf.

For a summary of the employers response to our pay claim, and for details of the pay ballot, please read this bulletin: ult-online-comms-to-members-07-10-24.pdf.

Kind regards,

Stacey Booth

National Officer

Posted on: 23 April 2024

Dear GMB Member,

The Joint Union pay claim has been submitted to United Learning Trust for their consideration. You can read the pay claim here: united-learning-pay-claim-2425-final.pdf.

This pay claim is for all ULT members not covered by TUPE arrangements, this means those members who are contractually employed on ULT pay and conditions.

ULT and the Joint Trade Unions will be meeting to discuss the claim in the coming weeks and any further updates will follow in due course.

If you have received this information in error, it might be because we do not hold accurate data.

Please complete this short survey to tell us what contract you are on: https://forms.office.com/e/bnYAsVfvbR.

In order to keep our records up to date, please update your details if there have been any changes by logging into your GMB account Make Work Better | GMB Union.

If there have been changes to your employment, please update your details by contacting your GMB regional office.

Thanks,

Stacey Booth

GMB National Officer