Tyndale Sackings
Socialist Press1977 1977-05-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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THE SIX WILLIAM TYNDALE reachers, witch-hunted by the Tory media, have now been sacked from their jobs. The NUT leadership has risen to a new level of betrayal by supporting these sackings on the grounds that the six took 'unofficial' strike action.
Following their suspension of teachers at Little Ilford School from the union for the same reason, this move throws down the gauntlet to every teacher who wants to fight education cuts and defend jobs.
The bureaucracy is ready to ensure that such teachers never teach again.
The Stalinist-dominated North London Teachers Association has made a belated protest on behalf of the Tyndale 6, having refused to support them in the past.
If this 'change of heart' is to have any meaning, a campaign must now be mounted throughout the NUT to demand that the leadership reverse its position.
Such a campaign must be directed toward the preparation of industrial action that can defend victimised teachers in the future.