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National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of University Teachers (AUT), National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) and other education unions


Three NUT Strikes - Bolton, Ealing, Westminster

Education unions

This Wednesday, the day after a divisional secretaries meeting to discuss how to plan the next national ballot, three schools- in Bolton, Ealing and Westminster- are out on strike in exemplary actions


Union round up

Education unions
Author: 
Patrick Murphy, Mike Fenwick

TEACHERS: The Executive of the National Union of Teachers on 29 May considered alternative timetables for a ballot for discontinuous strike action to continue the pay campaign.


Solidarity not boycott!

Boycott Israel?
Author: 
Camila Bassi

The boycott issue in the lecturer’s union, UCU can be seen are composed of two dominant sides, both of which are highly problematic: on the one, the UCU Left and its SWP core that implicitly pushes


Oaxaca teachers demand political freedom

Education unions
Author: 
Charlie Salmon

Two years after the great uprising, in Oaxaca, Mexico, Section 22 of the Sindicato Nacional de los Trabajadores (SNTE) teachers union has mounted a fresh 21 day long strike demanding an end to politic


Protest against deportation of Nottingham University activist

FREE SPEECH
Author: 
Pete

About 400 students and academics protested today, May 28th at Nottingham University against the attempts currently under way to deport Hicham Yezza, a former university student now employed on the


Classroom Solidarity - Education worker bulletin

Education unions
Author: 
AWL Education Worker

ClassroomSolidarity is produced by teachers, teaching assistants and other education workers in the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, an organisation fighting as part of the labour movement for a socia


Action in the autumn

Education unions
Author: 
Patrick Murphy

The National Union of Teachers Executive met on 8 May for the first time since the 24 April pay strike. For a while it looked like there would be no discussion or vote on proposals to develop the pay campaign.


Public sector activists call for action after 24 April

Education unions

Civil service by Workers’ Liberty PCS Members

A number of Groups (sectors) in PCS are striking on 24 April alongside the teachers and lecturers.

Our strike will make the news and will undoubtedly worry the powers that be; how much better if the whole of the PCS union was on strike.


24 April in London

Author: 
Martin Thomas

The picket line at the Shelter office on Old St, London, was good. On the workers' third day of strike action - after a long pause, a lot of pressure from management, and a lot of foot-dragging or worse from full-time union officials - picket numbers were still buoyant, and the mood was defiant.


French teachers threaten action

Education unions
Author: 
Ed Maltby

As British teachers are mobilising for a historic strike, their French counterparts are engaged in a bitter struggle of their own, in the face of a ferocious government attack and a scandalously timid union leadership.


NUT left abstain on homophobia

Lesbian, Gay, Bi

For the first time in its history, the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers debated a motion submitted by LGBT teachers from their own conference.


UCU Left discuss way forward

Education unions

On 29 March the University and Colleges Union Left met in London. Around 60 lecturers discussed the way forward for the left in the union.


NUT left should be bolder

Education unions
Author: 
Jack Yates

The 2008 National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference was unlike any other in the recent past. The difference? For almost a year NUT activists have been preparing the ground for the first national strike in over two decades. The attack on teachers pay and the unions' industrial response to it shaped the opening days and determined the mood of the rest of conference.


Pay revolt on 24 April

Education unions
Author: 
Patrick Murphy

On 1 April the NUT National Executive received the results of the ballot for a one day strike to protest at the continuing cuts in teachers’ real pay. When the result was known there was no hesitation in agreeing to call the action on 24 April. Indeed the vote to proceed with a strike was unanimous.


Teachers vote 72% for strike action on pay

Pay cut
Author: 
Colin Foster

Members of the National Union of Teachers have voted by a 72% majority to strike on 24 April against the Government's plan to impose a real-wage-cutting 2% pay limit, nailed down for three years, on them and on all public sector workers.


NUT Left Abstain on Homophobia

Lesbian, Gay, Bi
Author: 
TomU

For the first time in its history, the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers debated a motion submitted by LGBT teachers from their own conference.


Giving them the measles

Education unions
Author: 
Ed Maltby

A large teachers’ strike has been called for Tuesday 18 March in France, with teachers in many schools voting to strike indefinitely. As the preparations for this are underway, the JCR (the LCR’s youth wing) has been mobilising to get word out to lycée (roughly equivalent to post-16/FE college) students, at a time when the organisation has identified expansion into that age group as a priority.


Handing over schools to business spivs?

Academies
Author: 
Liam Conway

Gordon Brown and Ed Balls will continue to accelerate the academies programme. The fake concern Balls expressed about some schools flouting admissions procedures acts as sand in our eyes as he and Brown increase selection through academies, trust and foundation status.


Pushing education beyond capitalist limits

Education
Author: 
Pat Murphy

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire W. B. Yeats


A different type of trade unionism

Education unions
Author: 
Nick Raine, NUT South Notts Joint Secretary (Personal Capacity)

This [NUT 2008 Easter] conference comes at a crucial time for trade unionists both in education and across the Public Sector. Both the NUT and UCU are balloting members over the government’s 3 year pay cut, which will hopefully lead to the first national strike over pay for a very long time.


Get a life — building action on workload

Schools
Author: 
Pat Murphy

If you ask teachers what the worst aspect of their job is, a very big majority will point to excessive workload. We know this because they have been asked by trade unions and by academic researchers on a regular basis.


Education: the world’s biggest industry

Schools
Author: 
Tom Unterrainer

“Teachers are proletarians. Indeed, it has been some time now since a significant number of teachers owned their own means of production; in order to survive they sell their labour power…”

Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labour: Workers’ Movements and Globaliation since 1870


Push back the “new management”

Schools
Author: 
Tim Hales

I am a local officer of Leeds NUT. One of our biggest sources of casework is workplace bullying. It is also one of the most depressing and frustrating aspects of our work because it is very difficult to protect individual members from systematic intimidation by school managers, and the problem grows like a malignant tumour.


End the rule of SATs!

Testing and tables
Author: 
Patrick Murphy

The Cambridge Primary Review - arguably the most important review since Plowden in 1967 - calls for an end to national testing and a complete re-think of current primary practice.


NUT Conference: delegates must launch a serious fight-back on public sector pay

Education unions
Author: 
Pat Murphy

Delegates will meet at the National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester this month (21-24 March) in the middle of the union’s first national strike ballot for 22 years. Most activists are expecting a strong yes vote to endorse the union’s opposition to a 2008-10 pay deal which offers three further years of pay cuts.


Teachers: Vote yes for action!

Education unions
Author: 
Pat Murphy

Around 200,000 teachers in the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will receive ballot papers from 28 February asking them to vote for strike action on pay.


AWL NUT fraction

Education unions
23 Feb 2008 - 12:00pm
23 Feb 2008 - 3:30pm

Location: 

Nottingham. Details: 0115 911 2864.


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Amendments for NUT conference on Workload and on War

Education unions

Amendments for NUT conference on Workload and on War


Teachers: take action on pay!

Education unions

This leaflet from Leeds NUT outlines the reasons why teachers are fighting for better pay.


Lecturers plan strike alongside teachers on 24 April

Education unions

The lecturers' union UCU plans to ballot its members in Further Education colleges to strike over pay alongside the National Union of Teachers on 24 April.


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