Association
Secretary,
Andy Johnson
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Gloucestershire
Association Divisional Secretary, Andy Johnson writes:
"The
NUT is the largest teachers' union in Gloucestershire representing teachers
in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary establishments as well as supply
teachers and Soulbury-paid members across the county."
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The
National Union of Teachers is the only union which takes into membership
qualified teachers (and those on courses training to become teachers) exclusively.
All the other classroom teacher unions include non teachers, which affects
their focus. The Gloucestershire Association of the National Union of Teachers
serves its members in many ways.
 It represents their collective
views, as well as the policies of the Union nationally, to the LEA, School
Governing Bodies, the press and the media;
it is the only teaching union which
allows into membership teachers from all sectors of education from newly
qualified teachers to head teachers, supply teachers to advisers and therefore
speaks for the whole profession and not just one section of it;
it is the only union which employs
its own team of solicitors, in all regions of the country, who specialise
in the law as it affects education, teachers and their pupils;
it acts as a source of information
and expertise for members to call upon over issues such as salary scales,
threshold, sick leave, maternity leave, part-time contracts, job sharing,
pensions - in fact, the whole range of education and employment law so important
to teachers in their daily working lives;
it provides advice and training
for professional development;
it supports and represents individual
members facing professional difficulties;
it provides the opportunity to
meet socially with fellow teachers from other schools and settings;
it campaigns for a better deal
for teachers and their pupils.
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