The teaching union and the pressure group

A tale very much of our times

The National Education Union (NEU) is a union for teachers in the UK. It was formed in 2017 from a merger of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). As an aside, when teaching in London, I was once a school representative for the ATL which, at that time, had a reputation for being moderate. I was therefo…