Discontent grows in NUT
At the National Union of Teachers conference on 3-7 April, an amendment from the rank and file network Lanac on teacher workload was lost by 41% to 59%. A wrecking amendment (delete most) to a Lanac proposal on union strategy passed only by 53% to 47%. Lanac motions usually get about a third of conference votes. This year’s votes show that an increasing section of conference dissatisfied with the mismanagement of industrial disputes, and bemused by the union leaders’ continual self-congratulation at a time when latest figures show that almost four out of ten new teachers quit within a year of...