Martin Powell-Davies - teacher, trade unionist and socialist

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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

600 march on Gove in London - now we need to strike

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Police estimates - not union estimates - say that 600 of us marched through Westminster tonight in a protest against Michael Gove called b...
Monday, 11 March 2013

LANAC prepares for NUT Conference - and beyond

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On Saturday March 9 th , over twenty delegates and visitors, from eighteen different Local NUT Associations, travelled to Coventry from as ...
Sunday, 10 March 2013

Three months on - and still no news of action

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IT HAS BEEN THREE MONTHS SINCE GOVE ANNOUNCED HIS PLANS TO TEAR APART TEACHERS’ PAY - but unions are yet to mount a serious campaign to st...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Lewisham AGM calls on NUT Conference to name dates for strike action

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Tonight's Annual General Meeting of Lewisham NUT unanimously voted to support amendments to motions to this Easter's NUT Annual Conf...
Friday, 1 March 2013

£7bn Unpaid Labour - but Gove and Wilshaw want more

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Wilshaw insults teachers in September Today is supposedly "Work Your Proper Hours Day" but for those bullying Michaels, Gove a...
Thursday, 28 February 2013

UPS teachers - move school and see pay cut by £10,000

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Discussions at the NUT National Executive over the last two days have confirmed that, from September 2013 onwards, with the abandonment of ...

Using Ofsted to bully schools into docking pay

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A new letter from Sir Michael Wilshaw to Headteachers, backed up by Ofsted’s January 2013 ‘Subsidiary guidance’ to schools, makes crystal cl...
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Martin Powell-Davies

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* Brought up as a socialist by parents who hungered for what is right * One adopted grandfather left me a double-barrelled name, the other his name on a 1926 General Strike black-list * Given a comprehensive education at St.Andrew's, Leatherhead * First-class degree from King's College, Cambridge, for those who like that kind of thing * Secondary science teacher in London 1986-2015 * Lewisham NUT Secretary 1993-2015, organiser of many campaigns to defend teachers and education * Father of four who were all so well-supported by Sedgehill School, SE6. * Member of the NUT National Executive 2010-15 * NEU London Regional Secretary 2016 - 19 * Moved to Cumbria to return to teaching 2019 * Candidate for NEU DGS in 2021 * Proud to have been name-checked by Gove for saying that his 'reforms' could make teaching unbearable * Member of the CWI, following its global struggles via http://www.socialistworld.net * Exiled member of Penge CC, still a 'Middle Aged Man In Lycra' when I can be.
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