Oxford teachers face sack
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County Council issued some 60 redundancy notices to teachers.
These redundancies stem from the final sentence of the Council's ten-page cuts document published last September which announced their intention to get rid of teachers "surplus to establishment"
This "surplus" is some 200 teachers (some part time) in primary and secondary schools throughout the county.
This figure has been whittled down by various methods including early retirement, redeployment, the harrassment of part timers to accept shorter hours and the threat to sack a handful of so-called "incompetent" teachers.
It has also emerged that the Council has since last September taken on 220 teachers on short term contracts. This practice was condemned by the NUT in 1976 and teachers were assured . after the Oxford strike in July 1977 that the Council would no longer use this measure to cut teachers' jobs.
It has now emerged that this agreement was merely verbal and short-term-which underlines even more sharply the sellout of that dispute by the then Divisional Secretary Jack Steadman.
NUT and NAS/UWT members in Oxfordshire must respond immediately to this threat to jobs by demanding all out, indefinite strike action throughout the County until the redundancy notices are withdrawn and the 220 temporary contracts made permanent.
*Both the Oxford City and the Witney and Burford NUT branches have called on the NEC to call all out indefinite strike action in Nottingham shire with a national levy until Eileen Crosbie is reinstated, and the City has invited her to speak.
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