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Anne Lemon, NUT executive member for North Somerset, spoke to Socialist Worker about building the strike ballot:

The NUT plans to ballot members at Forest Hill school in Lewisham, south London, over a planned compulsory redundancy.

Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions struck at Shorefields Technology College today, Wednesday, against plans to turn the school into an academy.

Teachers in the NUT union will hold a national strike ballot over the Tory assault on their pensions—and aim to ­coordinate action with other public sector unions.

Some 250 NUT delegates discussed "Where next after 26 March?" at what was the biggest Friday night fringe meeting at NUT conference in years.

Delegates at NUT conference voted unanimously to fight plans to turn schools into academies and free schools. The debate showed the understanding among teachers that these schools are about turning schools into businesses – and the widespread determination to resist.

The Blair Peach award was given out for the first time at this year’s NUT conference. Fittingly, the award was made on the 32nd anniversary of Blair’s death, on Saturday 23 April.

management are trying to cut costs in several schools in Camden, north London—provoking disputes.

Tens of thousands of angry school workers joined the TUC demonstration in London on 26 March. It transformed the feeling about the possibility of resisting the cuts. This will be reflected at the NUT teachers’ union annual conference this weekend.

Tony Souter, an NUT union rep at Kingsbury secondary school in Warwickshire, has been charged with gross misconduct and dismissed from his job.

The NUT and NASUWT unions plan to ballot for strikes at Garstang High School in Lancashire against a proposal to turn it into an academy.

Nearly 50 NUT union reps and activists from sixth form colleges met last Saturday.