WITH THEIR wage increase now five months overdue, school caretakers and ancillary workers in the Inner London uren decided to take industrial uction last week, reports RAY VARNES Selective strike action North London LEGOOS resulted in several closed. The only school which attempted to stay open was Highbury Grove in Islington, the farmer domain of Rhodes Boysan.
The striking workers mounled a picket of the school and members National Union of Teachers refused to cross strikers in leafleting members HE COCKRACE LEALEHIEUEEUIL Over two hundred school students also refused to cross the picket line and demanded information about tbe strike, which the beadmaster of the school had failed to provide. They encouraged the by joining the picker line and SHENUE BULLS The school keepers ancillary workers women cleaners and meals attendants being most militant section of school workers. The women have all LUSCO OCTOSS DESCE BECA even though they and they are not highly paid to begin with, Although • the arimarily over pay, it has also seen sparked off by attempts ittipose лем description which would result in redundancies and increased work loads cuts planned for Inner London schools.
KAY TAINES IS a caretaker member of NUPE and a shop steward.
For Fred Jarvis and his fellow executive members, the an end to immigration controls be one of the most decisive this In the face of the NUT SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 23 March, 1978 page 5