NUT drops pay fight
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This year's National Union of Teachers' Conference began with a damp squib-the decision effectively to abandon this year's pay claim.
After impassioned attacks on the management panel's refusal to increase their 9% offer, the Executive called not for strike action but the "withdrawal of goodwill" as their method of fighting for the 36% claim.
All this involves is voluntary dinner duties and the use of cars for school business.
But even the "alternative" moved by the IMG-inspired Socialist Teachers Alliance and the SWP's "Rank and File" group offered nothing but more UNION DUES NUT leader Fred Jarvis of the same thing-calling for half-day strikes, 'no cover' action, and for the Executive to arrange a strike of "extended duration" in "selected areas"
Yet at a fringe meeting at the conference an IMG member South from Havering moving the oppositión to the Executive Memorandum, pointing out that it contained not a single policy for action, or inkling of how to defend members' • living standards against inflation.
NUSS lobby A highlight of the conference was a lively lobby of 40 youth from Leeds NUSS demanding recognition of the school students' union and an end to corporal punishment. • But in the event there. was no motion on the agenda through which delegates could respond to these correct demands.
A full report on the week-long conference will appear in next week's Socialist Press.
SECRET BALLOTS BEFORE STRIKES TAKE HEY TERRY- THOSE TORY PLANS AREN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL !!
...TOO OFTEN UNIONS ARE DOMINATED BY A HANDFUL OF EXTREMISTS WHO DO NOT REFLECT... ........
WHAT OPPORTUNIST BASTARDS-THEY'VE SIMPLY STOLEN ALL OUR BEST CONCORDAT PROPOSALS!
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