• Teachers’ union elects former FBU general secretary on turnout below 5%

    Matt Wrack wins ballot for NASUWT general secretary after legal challenge to executive’s earlier decisionMatt Wrack, a former leader of the firefighters’ union, has been elected as permanent general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union after a ballot in which less than 5% of eligible members voted.He beat his challenger, Neil Butler, winning 5,249 votes to his rival’s 3,126, after the NASUWT’s first contested leadership election for a generation. Continue reading...

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