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From Divisional Secretary - John Pemberthy
I am very pleased to have been nominated by Gloucestershire for the National Executive. Our neighbouring divisions in Herefordshire and Worcestershire have also nominated me.
The election ballot papers will be sent to members in early March and I would be very grateful for your support. The National Executive meets monthly to discuss and implement national policy as agreed at conference. Please do not waste your opportunity to vote in this important election.
We are facing increasing pressures in the coming year, with further new government initiatives including a new OFSTED inspection framework.
Perhaps the most worrying change will be the de-regulation of Performance Management and new guidance making it easier to dismiss teachers on capability grounds. I will be fighting hard to resist a weakening of the supportive elements of the current policy in the local area. I will also be working with you to challenge unreasonable workload demands. Please contact me if you need support.
At our recent General Meeting our General Secretary, Christine Blower, spoke about our campaign against unfair pension reform. As I go around schools in the area, talking to members, I have never seen such anger against these proposals which threaten the prospect of a dignified retirement for teachers and others in the public sector.
With best wishes for the New Year.
John Pemberthy - Divisional Secretary
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Gloucestershire
Association Divisional Secretary, John Pemberthy 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."
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 other 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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