Teachers' rank-and-file network decides on election push
The Local Associations National Action Campaign (LANAC), the rank-and-file network in the National Union of Teachers (NUT), held its latest conference in Leicester on 1 February. NUT National Executive member Patrick Murphy reported that there would now be a national strike before the end of March, with the date to be announced on 7 February. Promises to follow the three well-supported regional strikes last year with a joint national strike by NUT and NASUWT have now been broken twice by the two unions. All delegates agreed that the immediate priority now was to build for the March strike, but...