Ross Committee A MASS meeting of the unions at the Inner London Education Authority's Educational Television Centre last Thursday voted unanimously to fight the authority's proposal to close the centre.
Taxing results decision of the Labour-led ILEA to implement the cent education cuts in 1980-81.
A joint union action committee at the centre, involving ABS, ACTT, GLCSA, NUPE, will oppose the together with all other education cuts in the Inner London area.
The Education Television Centre has produced multi-cultural material for use in schools, regularly attacked by the National Front. Now it seems that the Labour Party is intent on doing what the NF has failed to achieve.
As well as a fight,fo save jobs, opposing the closure is also a battle to defend progressive education against The action committee has made public a confidential ILEA document proposing £4.4m Although Sir Ashley Bramall, leader of the authority, has redundancies of full-time staff will be avoided, the secret proposals tell a different story;
With cuts scheduled in everything from school cleaning, maintenance, and adult education, trom committee against the cuts will be held at County Hall on 9 October. For Television Centre closure, contact the Joint Union Action Committee, ETV Centre, Thackeray Ra, London SW8 president and a member of the Broad Left; refused to accept the vote, and duly closed the meeting Dealing with the Tories' education cuts evidently means getting shot of the Broad Left, too. A number of London NUT associations are now calling for McKay's resignation.
Five down below THE TORIES' cuts do not stop short of fire fighting. In Lancashire 75 jobs in the fire service are to be wiped out, | including Workers at Attwaters engineering firm in Preston, where two were killed and seven badly injured in a fire last month, are joining Association for Health and Safety in sw opposing these cuts and demanding sate workplaces.
The first step connei Lancashire county council at County Hall, Fishergate, Preston at 12.45 on works mainly manufacturing fire prevention with the local and the North-west is lobby of would have succeeded in shutting the station completely if the NUR had its members at the Old Common Panell signal box to come conference • THE 250,000 homeworkers in Britain women who carry out work in their back room — are so used to appalling wag rates and conditions of employment that having the Tories in power might not seem to make any difference.