Rog Peek ~ You have taken your first quote from the NUT website and they have chosen not to be part of the negotiating body in the Social Partnership. They are not one of the negotiating unions, that is their choice and I respect that. I have to say the STRB recommendations were not in line with the government's recommendations but were accepted by the government because all the other teacher unions and STRB had negotiated and accepted them. The government also had to go along with the negotiations being reopened because of the re-opener clause which the SP unions had written in. Do you really think the government would have agreed to reopening and re negotiating a pay deal, which they have to abide by if agreed by STRB, if we were at their bidding? I think not.