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The first steps towards professional unity
Now is our time to fight back against the education cuts imposed by a government obsessed with privatisation, says LOUISE REGAN
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AS THE NUT arrives in Cardiff for its annual conference, it is a real honour to be taking over as president. This is a historic occasion as it is the last conference of the NUT — from September we will become the National Education Union.
As a union, we have been campaigning for professional unity for as long as I can remember and now that we are finally taking the first step towards this great achievement. We will become the fourth biggest union in the TUC with 450,000 members and this gives us a real opportunity to use this unity and strength to defend our members, our children and our schools.
The NUT has a long and proud history of defending education but also of showing solidarity with other workers locally, nationally and internationally. As a union, we understand that an injury to one is an injury to all.
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