Scottish teachers win support
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EVEN TAKE OUR ADVICE AND IMPOSE WAGE CONTROLS!
8,000 Scottis 1 teachers were called out o i strike for three days last week by their union, the EIS. They will be out for two more days this week.
The union leadership have stated that these stoppages will continue "indefinitely" until the claim for 18.6% is secured.
This action-unprecedented for Scottish teachers-is transforming. many teachers' attitudes towards trade unionism.
In Glasgow and Lanarkshire especially, teachers organised strike committees have sought the support of both the general public and the organised labour movement.
In Lanarkshire the steelworkers have pledged their support, paid for rooms for the strike committee in Motherwell Town Hall and helped teachers secure duplicators and ON OUR PART!.. will the the telephones.
In the Springburn area of Glasgow, teachers' representatives have been invited to address the shop stewards' committees at the rail engineering workshops, and have planned a public meeting this Thursday to publicise their case.
The strike has also helped smoke out the right wing in the union leadership.
At a mass meeting in Glasgow last Tuesday, the representative for Albert Secondary denounced EIS Executive member Norman McLeod who has refused even to pay the strike levy!
The speaker called on the EIS leadership to organise a mass picket of the school at which McLeod is headmaster.
That same evening, McLeod announced his resignation from the Executive. He has since been given prime time on the media to attack the policies of his own union.
There be further escalation of strike this week following ballot vote of the ... THERE ARE THAT'S ALL VERY WELL, BUT COMING UP.... WE MUST SEE THIS IN PERSPECTIN PRIOR'S EMI :.. AND NOW. IT LOOKS LIKE THATCHER MIGHT THAT WILL CALL FOR SOME FAST TALKING 8,000 strong Scottish Secondary Teachers Association to join the strike.
But within the SSTA there are determined anti-strike elements who will have to be challenged by more intensive picketing.
The undoubted steps forward in the fight must not blind teachers to the manoeuvres going on behind the scenes.
John Pollock, EIS General Secretary, is already pressing for a deal along the lines of that secured by the civil service.
This would mean permanent pay review body, payment of the increase from 1 May instead of 1 April, and more money being "found" by allowing a reduction in the teaching workforce over the next year.
Such wheeling and dealing can only be blocked by a determined extension of the strike and exposure of the schemes being cooked up by the leadership.
SOME VERY STICKY PROBLEMS MORE CLOSURES... MORE CUTS... LOYMENT BILL— •I MEAN, ONCE WORKERS GET A TASTE FOR PELTING THATCHER AND JOSEPH, WE'D BETTER START WEARING CRASH HELMETS!
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