Education unions

National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of University Teachers (AUT), National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) and other education unions

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Harvard's academic helots organise

Following a near-five year effort to build a campaign, recruit organisers, seek national union affiliation, and build sufficient levels of initial support, the Harvard Academic Workers union ( HAW ) launched on 6 February 2023. HAW is affiliated to the UAW (United Autoworkers Union), which now has nearly a quarter of its 400,000 members in higher education, despite its historic roots in the automotive industry. UAW is currently going through major internal upheaval, forced by grassroots activists involved in the UAWD (Unite all Workers for Democracy) campaign who have just won significant...

NEU: stand firm

Teachers who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) in England will strike on 15-16 March.

Scottish teachers ballot on improved offer

On Friday 3 March, the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities made another improved offer to the Scottish teachers' union EIS in the ongoing and year-long pay dispute.

NEU: forward to 15-16 March

The National Education Union (NEU) National Executive (NEC) met on 25 February to consider the progress of our strike campaign on pay and funding.

It's urgent to speed up and widen strikes

March 15 will see teachers, civil servants, Tube workers, and junior doctors, and possibly others, strike together. Some of those workers, including teachers and junior doctors, will also strike on 16 March, when they will be joined by workers on the national rail. 15 March is Budget day. It is an opportunity to press not only the demands of individual disputes, but a broader package of pro-working-class policies: rebuild the NHS, scrap anti-strike laws, increase benefits... Lively, well-supported picket lines and a strong presence in central London, with local strike rallies elsewhere, could...

Scottish teachers step up strikes

It is now a whole year since the Scottish teachers’ union EIS submitted a 10% pay claim to the Scottish Government

NEU Wales postponement a bad move

Following the National Education Union’s (NEU) national strike on 1 February, the union is now in rolling regional action

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