Sentence examples for classrooms union from inspiring English sources

Re "Views Differ About Aides in Classrooms; Union Calls Them Vital but Experts See a Frill" (news article, May 19): I have been a classroom teacher in the New York City public schools for the last 35 years.

The revelation prompted one classroom union to question whether schools were getting value for money by spending their funds in this way.

One of the biggest classroom unions in the country has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the education secretary, Michael Gove, and called for his resignation.

At its annual conference, delegates of one of the biggest classroom unions in the country, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), have chanted "Gove must go", called for a national strike and demanded the resignation of the chief inspector of England's schools.

A week ago, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers – the most moderate of the classroom unions – overwhelmingly carried a motion of no confidence in Gove and the chief inspector of England's schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw.

ATL is the most moderate of the classroom unions and it is the first time in its history that delegates have passed a motion of no confidence in an education secretary.

The overhaul of the structure of schools is also deeply unpopular with the classroom unions with headteachers opposing any further reform and warning that schools are not interested in becoming independent of local education authorities - a key plank of the reforms.

The NASUWT, meeting in Birmingham, is one of the two biggest classroom unions.

The NUT, one of the two biggest classroom unions, says the decision would "allow time to see if progress is possible" in talks with the government.

He has stood with gay teachers fighting for representation in classrooms, supported union workers and traveled the world as a human rights advocate.

But the review's findings were criticised by the classroom teachers' union, the NASUWT.