National Education Union
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| Motto | Together for Education |
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| Founded | to be formed on 1 September 2017 |
| Members | 570,000 (2017) |
| Affiliation | TUC |
| Key people | Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, (Joint General-Secretaries) |
| Office location | London |
| Country |
United Kingdom Jersey Guernsey Isle of Man |
| Website | http://neu.org.uk/ |
The National Education Union, (Welsh: Undeb Addysg Genedlaethol), abbreviated NEU, is a proposed trade union in the United Kingdom for school teachers, further education lecturers, education support staff and teaching assistants. It will formed by the merger of the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers on 1 September 2017. With over 500,000 members, the NEU will be the largest education union in the UK.
The NEU will come into being on 1 September 2017. At that time a Joint Executive Council will be formed with the existing structures of the NUT and ATL continuing to function as sections of the new union. Full amalgamation will place on 1 January 2019 and a new Executive Committee will be elected. The existing general secretaries of the NUT and ATL, Kevin Courtney and Mary Bousted will serve as joint general secretaries of the new union until 2023 when a single general secretary will be elected.
The NUT was established at a meeting at King's College London on 25 June 1870 as the National Union of Elementary Teachers (NUET) to represent all school teachers in England and Wales combining a number of local teacher associations which had formed across the country following the 1870 Education Act. After toying with the idea of changing the name to the National Union of English Teachers, the name National Union of Teachers (NUT) was finally adopted at Annual Conference in April 1889.
The origins of ATL go back to 1884 when 180 women met to create the Association of Assistant Mistresses (AAM). These women worked in schools founded for higher education of girls. Their concern was primarily for the pupils. However, in 1921, the AAM appointed representatives to the newly formed Burnham Committee on Salaries in Secondary Schools.
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