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TEACHERS must “get more angry” to resist cuts and global education profiteers, NUT general secretary Christine Blower urged yesterday.
Addressing her union’s conference on its final day, Ms Blower vowed to step up resistance to the so-called global education reform movement (Germ).
Numerous speeches and motions at the conference, which ran over the Easter weekend, referred to Germ as shorthand for the profit agenda creeping into state education.
NEU members at Woodfield School in north London are taking sustained industrial action against enforced cuts to learning support assistants’ hours and pay. MARY ADOSSIDES reports
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
