We welcome all our members to the start of the new school year. Teachers in Nottingham face some extraordinary challenges in the coming months and being a member of a strong union will be more important than ever.
The NUT has a great history of fighting on behalf of teachers and Education, but if we are to succeed in resisting the attacks on your pay and working conditions we must all contribute to making our union stronger.
For years, most union members have been content to leave their national and local representatives to negotiate on their behalf. In a climate of national and local agreements with reasonably benign employers this worked fairly well, but those days are changing fast. Unless we succeed in resisting changes, it is likely that most teachers will soon find themselves negotiating pay and conditions at a school level.
The Pensions strike on 30th June demonstrated the determination of teachers to fight. That campaign will continue this term and we will need your active support.
In Nottingham the extra challenges of the Workplace Parking Levy and holiday pattern changes will need strong resistance too.
Many of you are regularly visiting our improved website, keeping informed about
developments and campaigns. We have been delighted with the participation in on-
The use of new technologies allows us to improve communications whilst keeping costs of postage and printing under control. We now email members regularly with important news , but we can’t do this without an up to date email address for you. If you aren’t receiving emails from us please tell us your email address by using the Union’s membership update at:
https://www.teachers.org.uk/joinus/update
We need your active participation in the Union now more than ever. Please take time to keep informed and come to our meetings whenever you can. We need more activists at a local level and we need a representative in every school.
If you want to help contact us at
secretary@nottingham-
