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Teachers in the Leicester City NUT Branch have voted for immediate school walk-outs if any redundancy notices are issued or any teachers on temporary contracts are told they are not being re-employed.

Angry at the current lack of a fight to defend members' jobs, the teachers insisted that action should come before the jobs are lost, rather than dealt with by 'no-cover when the teacher has already gone-as under the present policy.

Divisional NUT. Secretary Betty Coates claimed there was nothing members could do to defend those who had accepted temporary contracts; but the branch decisively rejected this view and adopted a policy of indefinite walkouts and strike JO With Workers by the thousand taking to the streets to oppose Tory policies there is plainly no lack of militancy in the organised working class.

Yet the existing trade union bureaucrats and Labour leaders -whether right or 'left'-have no perspective to offer those workers prepared to fight in defence of jobs, living standards, social services and democratic rights.

These can only be defended through policies which start from the independent interests of the working class, which, as an international: class, has nothing to gain and everything to lose from attempts to restore the profitability of their "own"

employing class.

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The task now is to spread this to not only other NUT branches but also to all the public sector unions facing redundancy in Leicestershire.

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