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As expected the Tory Secretary of State Mark Carlisle has confirmed the closure of Wheatley Street Nursery School by Coventry's Labour Council.

Unfortunately for the Council the destruction of 70 nursery places (50 full time and 20 part time) was not completed quietly and eftectively but in a way which has done them not a bit of good.

In order to push through the decision before the beginning of the new term a Council officer, a Labour and a Conservative councillor visited the DES and spoke to Under Secretary of State Rhodes Boyson.

The young, the sick and the elderly are people that most of us think need a bit of extra attention.

We would like to think that September Coventry MP William Wilson has written to the DES asking for reconsideration of the. decision and asking for the same facilities to be given to the Parents Action Group as were given to the Council delegation.

And in rushing to confirm the closure practically as well as legally a private firm's removal van was used to empty the school of its equipment. The local authority unions will no doubt have something to say about this.

While the DES decision will inevitably take some of the steam out of the anti-closure campaign in no way can it be said that the Council has inflicted a decisive defeat.

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This is pure hypocrisy as it is no time at all since Ealing council implemented quite ruthless cuts on the social services including the closure of The Coventry Nursery Campaign (Wheatley Street) (CNCWS) responded to the DES confirmation by staging a 70 minute occupation of the Education offices on the first day of the new term.

A press statement issued by the campaign gave notice that the fight to re-open the school will continue with a lobby of the next Council meeting (Tuesday September 9) at which a petition of several hundred signatures will be presented.

An investigation into nursery requirements in Coventry has already turned up approximately one hundred people who need a nursery place either now or in the next couple of years.

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The CNC-WS is continuing this investigation and combining it with one into nursery provision plans by the Council and also an attempt to discover the secret plans for the future of the Wheatley Street site.

The widespread support for the campaign must inow be extended and those wanting nurseries organised into a powerful campaign for more not less nursery places.

In the unions the lessons of the campaign's 5'-day occupation of the Nursery must be Jettisoning the uncharacteristic fiery rhetoric of this year's steel strike, Bill Sirs and other steel union leaders have not fully reverted to their more accustomed role in the extreme right wing of the trade union and Labour movement.

Undaunted by the wave of sackings and threats of more closures, Sirs has declared the readiness of the ISTC to collaborate with Tory axe-man MacGregor in his plans to foist the industry's crisis onto the workforce.

As the deadline for the closure of the Consett plant draws nearer amid the now usual rumours of last minute capitalist syndicate buyers ste has spoken of a return to industrial relations we used to have in this industry just a few years ago" , in which union bureaucrats and employers worked hand in glove.

A TUC steel committee document has already boasted that BSC-after years of collaborationist union leadership-has the lowest cost workforce in the developed world.

But MacGregor wants much more-and has made a priority out of matching international levels of productivity: in other words imposing still further speed-up.

Sirs' new pledge to help out BSC management in this quest is a further indication to steelworkers that a new leadership is needed if jobs and conditions are to be defended.

Bill Sirs Delegates to NALGO's special Local Government Group Meeting on Friday 29 August were in no mood to fight the Tory government's cash limits which forced the employers to stick with their insulting 13% offer. Instead they voted to refer the case to arbitration.

The leadership of the Local Government Committee had no intention of allowing any development of the wave of militancy that grew out of the pay comparability action earlier this year, and has made every effort to keep the membership in a state of quiescence since the beginning of July when the pay negotiations began.

Since that time there has been no reference in NALGO circulars to fighting the cash limits, only vague talk of 'defending services' with not a single concrete proposal..

The NALGO decision therefore does not change our overall assessment of the situation.

The union memberships remain prepared to fight the government and the employersbut the union leaderships are

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