National Union of Teachers (UK)
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| Full name | National Union of Teachers |
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| Founded | 1870 |
| Members | 372,136 (2015) |
| Affiliation | TUC, EI |
| Key people | Kevin Courtney, General Secretary Philipa Harvey, President |
| Office location | Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London |
| Country |
England Wales Channel Islands Isle of Man |
| Website | www |
The National Union of Teachers (NUT)/ˈnʌt/ is a trade union for school teachers in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It is a member of the Trades Union Congress. The Union recruits only qualified teachers and those training to be qualified teachers into membership and currently has almost 400,000 members, making it the largest teachers' union in the United Kingdom. In March 2017, NUT members endorsed a proposed merger with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers to form a new union to be known as national education union, which will come into existence on 1 September 2017.
The NUT campaigns on educational issues and working conditions for its members. Among the NUT's current policies are:
The NUT offers legal protection to its members. The NUT has established two financial services companies for teachers, Teachers Assurance in 1877 and the Teachers Building Society in 1966.
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.
In 1919, in response to an NUT referendum approving the principle of equal pay, a ginger group, the National Association of Men Teachers (NAMT), was formed within the NUT to further the interests of male teachers. The NAMT changed its name in 1920 to the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS) and seceded finally from the NUT in 1922. 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 is now amalgamated into the NASUWT, the second-largest teaching union in the UK.
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