National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers
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| National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers | |
| Founded | 1975 |
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| Members | 236,005[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Affiliation | TUC, STUC, EI |
| Key people | Chris Keates, General Secretary |
| Office location | London, England |
| Website | www.nasuwt.org.uk |
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) is a trade union representing teachers including headteachers throughout the UK.
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[edit] The Early Years
The origins of the NASUWT can be traced back to the formation of the National Association of Men Teachers (NAMT) in 1919. The Association was formed as group within the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to promote the interests of male teachers. The group existed alongside others within the NUT such as, the National Federation of Class Teachers, the National Association of Head Teachers and the National Federation of Women Teachers (later to become the National Union of Women Teachers).[2]
The formation of the NAMT was in response to an NUT referendum the same year, approving the principle of equal pay. A major change in salary policy which had been achieved whilst many male teachers were still away serving in the army.[3]
A subsequent three year campaign by the NAMT to further the interests of male teachers in the NUT, saw its name changed in 1920 to the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS) and finally resulted in secession of the NAS from the NUT in 1922. The secession came about indirectly following a decision at the NAS Conference that year to prohibit NAS members from continuing to also be members of the NUT after the 31 December 1922.[4]
The NAS aimed to recruit every schoolmaster into the NAS, to safeguard and promote the interests of male teachers, to ensure recognition of the social and economic responsibilities of male teachers, and to ensure the representation of schoolmasters on matters concerned with education, with both the Local Education Authorities (LEA’s) and Government. The NAS also maintained that all boys over the age of seven should be taught mainly by men and that schoolmasters should not serve under women heads.[5]
As the secondary education sector expanded, the NAS built its organisation among male secondary teachers, it adopted the methods of collective bargaining and militant industrial action in pursuing a narrow range of pay and conditions issues related to the interests of full time male ‘career teachers’.[6] In 1976 the NAS merged with the Union of Women Teachers(UWT) largely as a consequence of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, under which it became unlawful to exclude from membership on grounds of gender, and became the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT).[7]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2219114M
- ^ M. Ironside and R. Seifert, Industrial Relations in Schools, (London: Routledge 1995), p.72.
- ^ RA Simons, The Schoolmasters: The History of the NAS and of Education in its Time, (London: NASUWT: 1972)
- ^ A. Tropp,The School Teachers : the growth of the teaching profession in England and Wales from 1800 to the present day, (London : Heinemann 1957), p. 216
- ^ A. Blum (ed.), Teacher Unions and Associations: A Comparative Study, (University of Illinois Press, 1969), p. 54.
- ^ M. Ironside and R. Seifert, op. cit., p.97
- ^ Ibid.
