Anger as NUT strike vot ignored

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dithering shallying meeting District called discuss sanctions the pupil He was bad the 15. 1 -2-11 Tae HULUL The national President of the NUT, John Gray, faced accusations and shilly at a special of the Oxford Association his week to ontinuation of against cuts in teacher ratios. forcibly told that NUT leadership called sinke acon tom le -ntina farm tha successful 4,000 strong demonstration against the Council in September 1976, tastead of dissipating the energies of the teachers and ibe sympathies of parents through divisive and demoralsang sarations the battle ==i mar been won long Sanctions Teeting was debating 100 suppor ing the re's present anctions oh- -allino f IT pytenThe meeting overwhelmingly called for this to be amended to include plans for strike action, although the details of the time and mobilisation for this strike were still left for the Executive to decide.

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Gray replied to the criticisms by saying that he appreciated that sanctions were more difficult to implement than strike action, did make individual parents feel their children were being victimised, and divided up the unity of teachers, but they had proved effective in other areas of the country!

He could not however. give details of a single Education Authority which had scrapped completely its plans for cuts as a result of NUT action.

new ballot of the Oxfordshire membership is now planned-the 80% : vote for strike action last May now being considered null and void without the Executive BBC technicians, members of the Association of Broadcasting Staff, have already begun action in support of their 30% pay claim by blacking out the Queen's Speech and an edition of Nationwide.

While Workers aL the choice o: toih targes # is obvious that sure perla action will be trusted off as irrelevent by the BBC Al-out action. deseredlo paralyse broadcasting s the only way to force the BBC to

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Shut off BBC