Teachers' 'super-union' a possibility as NUT and ATL discuss collaboration
Source: The Guardian
Richard Adams
A “super-union” of more than 450,000 teachers could be created after the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers revealed that talks over “joint working” were taking place between the two unions.
Delegates at the NUT’s annual conference in Harrogate over Easter were told of progress in preliminary discussions, which could result in the ATL’s 124,000 members combining with the NUT’s 330,000 members in taking action.
The move would bring the prospect of one national teaching union closer if NASUWT, the other major union, was also prepared to cooperate in joint activity.
Christine Blower, the NUT’s general secretary, said: “The NUT was very pleased to have held a joint conference with ATL in February, where we discussed how teachers could get a stronger voice by working more closely together.
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A boy carrying a flag for the National Union of Teachers during a strike in Bradford last year. The union has discussed ‘joint working’ with the ATL. Photograph: Christopher Thomond
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