National Union of Teachers

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**NUT**

National Union of Teachers
Founded	1870
Members	273,005^[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Affiliation	TUC, EI
Key people	Christine Blower, Acting General Secretary Bill Greenshields, President
Office location	London, UK
Website	www.teachers.org.uk

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is a trade union of school teachers in England and Wales. It was founded in 1870 and is a member of the Trades Union Congress. Its annual conference is held during schools' Easter holidays.

The Union only recruits qualified teachers and those training to be qualified teachers into membership and currently has over 273,000 members, making it the largest teachers' union in Europe.

The NUT campaigns for, amongst others, at least inflation-rate pay rises for teachers, the abolition of National Curriculum Tests (SATs) and against academies.

Like most unions, the NUT offers legal protection to its members.

The NUT has founded two financial services companies for teachers, Teachers Assurance in 1877 and the Teachers Building Society in 1966.

The National Association of Schoolmasters (now NASUWT, the second largest teaching union in the UK) was formed as a breakaway group from the NUT in 1922 by members who opposed the NUT's support of equal pay for women.

On April 24, 2008, a planned strike took place for an inflation pay rise of 4.8% because the government was only going to give them a 2.45% rise.