Fight for NUPE'S
Socialist Press1981 1981-02-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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* Fight to base the expansion of services on nursery centres.
Fight to provide pre-school facilities with flexible hours Fight for local councils to draw up a deralpman plan * Fight to change the low on childrindieg and registra Ann histr the 1 Last in a series of articles by McKinley looking at the ry and political background to ight for childcare facilities. campal Fight for a national plan for under-fives services. Fight for a massive expansion of education and day c * Fight for an end to low pay in the norsery service. * Fight to restore the cuts in nursery beilding.
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* Fight to abolish the NNEB and create an integrated training scheme for all under-fives workers.
to meet the needs of working parents.
for all under-fives services.
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But all has not been gloom.
The Leicester Nursery Campaign led a successful fight last year to prevent a day nursery from closing and the council deliberately running down the staff.
• Demands that NALGO take up the fight meant that staff were replaced and the counci forced to Teview' the plans to close the Fosse Road Day Nursery.
Important links were made in 1980 between Oxford, Nottingham, Leicester, Wandsworth and Coventry Campaigns. and a refreshing Nurseries Action Conference was held in. Nottingham in May which brought many other campaigns ot ethat action th needed to fight the attack.
This. resulted in the campaigns coming together to write collectively a booklet. Nurseries: How and Why to Fight for Them' In July 1980 the National Child Care Campaign was formed which is the opposite of associations like the Campaign for Nursery Education and PrePlaygroup Association.
It sees the need for women to work and that women want to work; it starts from the need for expansion of nursery facilities and the need to defend what there is at present.
It also sees the necessity to fight within the trade ünion and labour movement as a necessary step to achieving some of these aims.
The Campaign is to discuss what kind of child care is needed. The kind of truly socialised child care to which the TUC's Report on the Under Fives recommendations aspire cannot be provided under capitalism, which is both unable and unwilling to expand the productive forces to the point where domestic labour in the individual family unit is replaced by socialised facilities, including childcare.
* Nurseries - How and Why to Fight for Them' is available from NCCC, c/o Surrey Docks Child Care Project, Dockland Settlement, Redriff Road, London SE 16.