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NASUWT – The Teachers' Union is a trade union representing teachers in the United Kingdom across all phases of education, affiliated with the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Education International. It is one of the largest teaching unions in the UK and is distinctive in representing only qualified teachers, rather than a wider group of education staff.
The union describes itself as "the undiluted voice of the teaching profession," emphasising that its work is centred exclusively on teachers’ interests.
The union engages in negotiations with employers, campaigns on pay and workload, provides legal and professional support to members, and, when necessary, takes industrial action.
Membership is open to teachers at every stage of their careers, including those in supply roles, leadership positions, and in both the maintained and independent sectors.
The origins of NASUWT can be traced back to the formation of the National Association of Men Teachers (NAMT) in 1919, which formed as a group within the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to promote the interests of male teachers. The formation of the NAMT was in response to an NUT referendum the same year, approving the principle of equal pay for women.
The NAMT continued its campaign to further the interests of male teachers, changing its name in 1920 to the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS). In 1922 the NAS broke away from the NUT and established its own organisation. The secession came about indirectly following a decision at the NAS Conference that year, to prohibit NAS members from continuing to also be members of the NUT after the 31 December 1922.
The NAS aimed to recruit every schoolmaster into the NAS, to safeguard and promote the interests of male teachers, to ensure recognition of the social and economic responsibilities of male teachers, and to ensure the representation of schoolmasters on matters concerned with education, with both the local education authorities and government. The NAS also maintained that all boys over the age of seven should be taught mainly by men and that schoolmasters should not serve under women heads.
As the secondary education sector expanded, the NAS built its organisation among male secondary teachers, it adopted the methods of collective bargaining and militant industrial action in pursuing a narrow range of pay and conditions issues related to the interests of full-time male 'career teachers'.
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NASUWT
NASUWT – The Teachers' Union is a trade union representing teachers in the United Kingdom across all phases of education, affiliated with the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Education International. It is one of the largest teaching unions in the UK and is distinctive in representing only qualified teachers, rather than a wider group of education staff.
The union describes itself as "the undiluted voice of the teaching profession," emphasising that its work is centred exclusively on teachers’ interests.
The union engages in negotiations with employers, campaigns on pay and workload, provides legal and professional support to members, and, when necessary, takes industrial action.
Membership is open to teachers at every stage of their careers, including those in supply roles, leadership positions, and in both the maintained and independent sectors.
The origins of NASUWT can be traced back to the formation of the National Association of Men Teachers (NAMT) in 1919, which formed as a group within the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to promote the interests of male teachers. The formation of the NAMT was in response to an NUT referendum the same year, approving the principle of equal pay for women.
The NAMT continued its campaign to further the interests of male teachers, changing its name in 1920 to the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS). In 1922 the NAS broke away from the NUT and established its own organisation. The secession came about indirectly following a decision at the NAS Conference that year, to prohibit NAS members from continuing to also be members of the NUT after the 31 December 1922.
The NAS aimed to recruit every schoolmaster into the NAS, to safeguard and promote the interests of male teachers, to ensure recognition of the social and economic responsibilities of male teachers, and to ensure the representation of schoolmasters on matters concerned with education, with both the local education authorities and government. The NAS also maintained that all boys over the age of seven should be taught mainly by men and that schoolmasters should not serve under women heads.
As the secondary education sector expanded, the NAS built its organisation among male secondary teachers, it adopted the methods of collective bargaining and militant industrial action in pursuing a narrow range of pay and conditions issues related to the interests of full-time male 'career teachers'.
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