Editing NASUWT (section)

== Industrial relations, bargaining and strikes ==
The union as the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS) with 21,000 members attempt to seek representation in national pay negotiations known as the [[Burnham Committee]] was rejected in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1960/apr/14/burnham-committee-national-association|title=BURNHAM COMMITTEE (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS) (Hansard, 14 April 1960)|website=api.parliament.uk|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref> The Burnham Committees however were dominated by representatives of the much larger National Union of Teachers (NUT) with a membership of 201,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1960/apr/14/burnham-committee-national-association|title=BURNHAM COMMITTEE (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS) (Hansard, 14 April 1960)|website=api.parliament.uk|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref>

However following a series of strikes and rallies the NAS achieved recognition for national pay bargaining on the Burnham Committees in 1962. Despite a successful campaign, the NUT continued to hold the majority of seats. In 1969 for instance, the NUT had 15 members on the Teachers’ Panel, with the NAS holding the 2 seats it achieved on joining the Committee in 1962.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Beauvallet|first=Anne|date=2014-12-20|title=English Teachers' Unions in the Early 21st Century :What Role in a Fragmented World ?|url=http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/7108|journal=Revue LISA/LISA e-journal. Littératures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Sociétés du Monde Anglophone – Literature, History of Ideas, Images and Societies of the English-speaking World|language=en|volume=XII|issue=8|doi=10.4000/lisa.7108|issn=1762-6153|doi-access=free}}</ref> The NUT general secretary also held the joint secretaryship of the main ''Burnham Committees'' and the leadership of their ''Teachers' Panels'' for most of their existence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/NUT/B|title=Burnham Committees|website=mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref>

By the mid-1980s, the pay rises for teachers of the previous decade had been considerably eroded by inflation <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/great-britain/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-great-britain.aspx|title=Historic inflation Great Britain – historic CPI inflation Great Britain|website=www.inflation.eu|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref>  In February, 1985 the NASUWT along with other teaching unions withdrew 'goodwill' in pursuit of higher pay. Members refused to supervise at lunchtimes, attend meetings with parents outside school hours, or cover for absent colleagues. The dispute escalated and a series of strikes followed for a period of the next two years.<ref name="Education in England – Chapter 15">{{Cite web|url=https://education-uk.org/history/chapter15.html|title=Education in England – Chapter 15|website=educationengland.org.uk|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref>

By 1987 the divisions over strategy with other unions, notably the NUT, brought the dispute to an end. The result was the ''1987 Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act'', which abolished the national pay negotiations and replaced them with an ''Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers' Pay and Conditions'', on which the unions had no representation.<ref name="Education in England – Chapter 15"/>  This was in turn replaced in 1991 by ''The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB)'', an independent body to examine and report on such matters relating to the statutory conditions of employment of school teachers in England and Wales.