The Association of Teachers and Lecturers was a trade union, teachers' union and professional association, affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, in the United Kingdom representing educators from nu
Striking teachers and public sector workers march down the Kingsway, London, flanked by police on 17 June, as part of the 2011 United Kingdom anti-austerity protests.
Mary Bousted
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Mary Winefride Bousted, Baroness Bousted, is a British trade unionist, educator and life peer. She was the joint general secretary of the National Education Union from 2017 to 2023 and previously the
Association of Teachers and Lecturers
…From September 2018, Kim Knappett who became Joint President of the National Education Union on 1 January 2019. The final ATL General Secretary was Dr Mary Bousted. The origins of ATL go back to 1884 when 180 women met to create the Association of Assistant Mistresses (AAM). These women worked in schools founded…
Official portrait, 2025
Bousted with a picket line of striking workers outside Cheney School, Oxford, in 2023