NASUWT merger with ATL and NUT?

One of the leading unions that includes classroom assistants among its members, the NASUWT, is exploring the possibility of merging with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and National Union of Teachers (NUT). The union's National Executive has agreed to send out a paper putting this option forward from general secretary designate Eamonn O'Kane to members. Mr O'Kane said many of his colleagues had 'serious reservations about discussion of possible mergers' - but added that they had shown 'their innate democratic instinct in agreeing to allow this important issue to go forward for debate among the members.'