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Elections are coming up for the national executive committee of the NUT teachers’ union.

The NUT teachers’ union national executive will meet on 25 February to decide the terms and timing of a ballot on action over the hated Sats tests.

The NUT and NAHT unions will go ahead with a joint ballot to boycott Sats tests for 11 year olds.

Workers must back the new climate movement I was at the massive climate change demo on Saturday 5 December with other members of my NUT union branch. As teachers we were delighted to see how many young people and students were on such a lively demonstration.

Teachers will hold a formal ballot on whether to boycott hated Sats tests after the NUT union last week announced that 75 percent of those voting in an indicative ballot want action.

Teachers at Islington Arts and Media School in north London last week asked their NUT union to ballot them for industrial action if management doesn’t agree that teachers should only "rarely" be asked to cover for absent colleagues.

Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions at Weston Favell school in Northampton are set to strike on Thursday of this week against plans to turn the school into an academy.

Teachers in the NUT union at Norlington School, east London, are continuing their fight after three days of strike action.

Teachers in the NUT union at Norlington School in Waltham Forest, east London, began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week.

Around 70 teachers attended the NUT union’s LGBT conference last Saturday.

The NUT teachers’ union is to hold an indicative ballot in November over whether to boycott the hated Sats tests.

Several key elections are coming up in the NUT teachers’ union. The first is for election of national officers – two vice-presidents, treasurer and examiners of accounts.