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of "lunchtime meetings".

In fighting for action on this TUC Day of Action Socialist Press supporters must stress the need for an all-out General Strike to defeat not only the anti-union Employment Bill but the Tory government itself.

Unions already in support of action are:

ASTMS, National Union of Railwaymen, GMWU, SOGAT, NUPE, NUT, Scottish TUC, parable" rates of pay wound up at Irst suggesting increases oi up to 87% for the lowest paid teachers.

Such embarrassing figures were hastily scrapped and new sums done to produce the final recommendations.

Meanwhile the 1980 pay review is now due-with the NUT seeking a further 20% increase. The size of the Clegg award and the systematic attempts by the media to inflate its value (some reports suggesting increases of up to 41%!) are clearly designed to minimise the chances of a fight on pay this year and pave the way for a wage-cutting settlement in the vicinity of the 13% figure won by local government white collar workers.

Spending cuts

At the same time, with government spending cuts and cash limits now biting in education, it suits the Tories well to divide resistance by creasing the impression (both among teachers and among low paid industrial and manual workers) that professional staff are being West of Scotland Shop Stewards, National Union of Journalists, Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades, National Union of • Seamen, COHSE, TGWU National Committes of buildin, construction, and civil engineering group, vehicle building and automotive group and bus group, Yorkshire NUM, Tobacco Workers Union, FBU.

minister Carlisle well looked after as living standards in general are allowed to fall.

Teachers must demand that their leadershp reject the Clegg findings and take up the fight on the 1980 review to establish a living minimum wage protected against inflation through regular increases to keep pace with the cost of living.