Selective strike gets rusn off
Socialist Press1980 1980-02-13Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Bureaucrats in the National Union of Teachers have come up with yet another form of "limited action" in "selective areas" to defeat the Tories' education cuts, After the axing of 285 jobs in Avon and 90 in Trafford at Christmas, teachers have at last been called out in some schools to strike on Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday of the last two weeks.
This scheme, argue the NUT leaders, hits the Authority two ways: a) by taking action in the schools and b) making the Council pay teachers' wages for four days out of seven, in the week!
In Trafford in Manchester the Council appear to have conceded ten jobs and a review of the education service coupled with an extra £1.5 million on next year's budget.
In Avon, the savage cuts (by natural wastage) meant that new timetables had to be drawn up in many schools which: NUT members are refusing to operate.
Here the Council do not even plan to discuss the situation, in spite of the teachers' strike action, until February 15, and the Chairman of the Education Committee Norman Reece is attempting to witch-hunt militant teachers by promising parents they can move their children away from schools regarded as "centres of agitation"
As further attacks on the education service emerge dailyalong with news of massive school meal and transport charges-the leadership of NUT and NUPE must be under further pressure to call the only serious action that can be taken to defend jobs and services-all out indefinite strike action. siga e
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t's agreed-you foot the bill! PRESS, Wednesday