Teachers fight back
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2,000 South Nottinghamshire teachers are to be called upon to take strike action in defence of a victimised colleague at a mass meeting in school time next Wednesday.
Nursery teacher Eileen Crosby was suspended and replaced by . a probationary teacher after she refused to supervise: 40 under-fives with only one instead of the cus tomary two nursery nurses.
The cut in staff is part of the local authority's spending cuts.
Last week the other seven NUT members at Robert Mellors Primary School went on official strike in her defence, and NUT leaders warned that the action could spread If education standards ano jobs are to be defended it is clearly essential that the authority is forced to jeinstate Eileen: Crosby and that the NUT in every area declares itself willing to take immediate strike action to stop the cuts and to defend any teacher victimised.
*In Glasgow last week 20 angry teachers defied a no-strike vote, and staged a half day stoppage protesting against the failure of their union, the EIS, to press their much delayed pay claim. Further action, and pressure for an official stoppage are now likely. • 017. S4Q:A