At today's NUT National Executive meeting, Christine Blower reported on NUT involvement in the Centre for Labour And Social Studies (CLASS), which held its 2014 conference at the weekend. Christine was pleased to report that she sat on the steering committee of CLASS for the Union and that the President has spoken at the conference. She recommended that members who hadn't seen the work and publications of CLASS yet look them up.
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Supporting Our Activists
The Organising and Membership Committee this morning received a report from the Health and Safety Working Group about lay officer stress. We put a proposal, from the working group, for the Executive to give "urgent consideration to implementing practical, preventative measures to support lay officers experiencing stress related to their role".
National Executive: Standing Up for Education
When we launched our national Stand Up for Education campaign in March 2014, it would have been impossible to predict quite where we would be only 8 months later. The campaign was a response to two things:
- The end of our joint strike action with the NASUWT and the first national strike action taken by the NUT alone since we began action on pensions 3 years earlier - this presented us with both dangers, in particular of being isolated, and opportunities, namely the opportunity to broaden our campaign and to deepen parental and wider community involvement.
- A developing feeling that the NUT, and the Trade Union movement more widely, had to build broader alliances in order to campaign effectively against policies which are not just limited to teachers' terms and conditions but which affect education in the broadest sense.
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