NEU Executive gives bosses a "get out of jail free" card
On 5 December, a slightly revised version of an agreement between the National Education Union (NEU) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) was put to the NEU National Executive for approval.
That agreement had been used in June, as I'll describe, to sink an NEU dispute at Harbinger primary school in East London.
Kirstie Paton, one of the four Executive members representing Inner London, where the strike took place, moved an objection to reject the agreement and I seconded it. We reminded the Executive of the Harbinger story and emphasised the flat-out contradiction between the