School meals N. Glamorgan follows Tory
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West Glamorgan's Labour council is to consider whether to overtake even the cuts made by Tory-run Dorset-by scrapping the school meals service altogether.
A full meeting of the Education Committee on September 23 is to consider this proposal from a special sub-committee, which would lead to the axing of 2,500 school meals jobs.
In Dorset, the Tory council has scrapped school meals for children under 12 years of age.
And in Solihull, Tory councillors are debating how much of the meals service should be But in each case these attacks are proceeding the more enthusiastically because of the complete refusal of • union officials to mount any serious DC opposition to them.
In West Glamorgan, NUPE Divisional Officer proudly announced his plan for ... a petition against the closure of the service!
In Dorset, NUPE and GMWU leaders have focussed all their energies not on mobilising action to halt the closures, but on the launching of a school meals cooperative, using the old school kitchens but dispensing with the NALGO administrative workforce.
In Hull, GMWU officials have actually gone so far as to bring along voluntary redundancy forms for distribution at union meetings sooner than fight in defence of jobs and services!
Only determined strike action, with a fight for broad labour movement support, can defend school meals as a crucial part of the hard-won education system.