HELP BUILD THE LEFT IN THE UNIONS. SEND US A CHEQUE TODAY By Anna de Casparis NUT representative, Archway EDUCATION Minister Shirley Wiliams' surprising loss of her parliamentary seat will not be deeply mourned inside the schools.
It was thanks to her decision to postpone talks until after the *Thatcher the Milk Snatcher' in their negotiations over pay - a grim prospect given the Tory plans for sweeping cuts in COULSEE Of course Williams" confidence in saying wait" teachers whose negotiations were supposed to have finished weeks ago indictment of the ineffectiveness of the NUT'S campaign on theissue of pay.
response from the rank and file be blamed for this; in the last week, all 258,000 members have goodwill fi.e. have refused to participate in any lunchtime supervision, of aller school activities), Even the Assistant Masters and Mistresses (which in no sense is a trade union, and has never taken any action in its 100 year existence) staged a half-day walk-out last week forcing several schools to close! to We can be certain thai if the union leadership agrees tbat the claim is referred to che Comparability Commission, or to compulsory arbitration deleat for leachers is inevitable.
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If we Tail to put up a good NUT fight on pay it will give the Tory withdrawn Black Paperites confidence in the world to crack down on other areas of education — on decomprebensivisation, on building up still further private Association education, on school closures and on insisting that education serves industry The time to take a stand on the full 36.5 per cent is now. The Ioner London Teachers Association has already urged the NUT executive to adopt a one day no-cover campaign and to call for selective action.
A similar motion was carried by the Birmingham Teachers Association.
AL meeting members expresse considerable anger over the ineffectiveness of the present sanctions and called for sharper action.
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