First of all I would like to thank the NUT members in
Brighton, East Sussex, Kent and Medway for electing me to the NUT National Executive.
I would also like to thank Dave Brinson for the work he has
done as executive member before me. While we may not always see eye to eye politically
I fully recognise his dedication to trade unionism in general and NUT members in
particular.
I will be hoping to record my views on what is happening on
the NUT executive on this blog and keep members up to date on the
decisions it makes.
It is a difficult time to be a teacher with privatisation, ‘performance’
related pay, out of control workload and a government that would rather attack
teachers than work with them.
I stood on a very clear platform that our current industrial
dispute needs to be stepped up to put more pressure on the government. Widely
spaced individual strikes while showing teachers’ anger do not put sufficient
pressure on the government.
My first substantive posts will be on the decisions taken at
conference this coming weekend and how much support has been achieved for an escalating plan of
industrial action and clear demands on what we are aiming to achieve through
strikes.
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