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attack on us for being who we are: not necessarily for what we fight 60 school meals staff at a public meeting in Accrington last Tuedsay 3 February called for a demonstration and protest to Mark Carlisle, Tory Education Minister, on his visit to Blackburn on Friday 13 February.
NUPE area organiser Neville Davis is to call on NUPE school mho save men on in school. Will • llave kitchens in NE Lancs, to support a one day strike call.
The call comes from the organising committee of the Lancashire School Meals Campaign, who convened the meeting, and from Neville Davis himself.
School meals staff are represented on the organising committee and have raised the issue of industrial action in their NUPE branches to support their fight for jobs and the school meals service.
arranged decause of tie demand from the last public meeting on 6 January to confront members of the Tory-controlled Lancashire County Council Education Committee.
The minority Liberal and Labour groups sent their education spokespersons and group leaders to the meeting, but the Tory counci group, with the exception of one brave lone councillor, boycotted the meeting.
Parents and school meals staff were understandably angry at this rebuke from their Tory elected representatives and have demanded a further confrontation.
Over 7,000 people in NE Lancs have come forward to support the campaign and sign a petition demanding safeguards for the school meals service.
The campaign will be organising a demonstration for Friday 13, assembling at 12.30 outside the main entrance of Blackburn College of Technology and Design.
Further information, messages of support and donations to: Lancashire School Meals Campaign, c/o 17 Marlowe: Ave.,. Baxenden, Accrington, Lancs, Tel: 0254 395753.