worsens our conditions package and what it would mean for individu against.
Left activists inside the union had hoped for strong opposition but were themselves surprised at the size of the vote against the deal. There will now be an individual • ballot on the recommendation.
The deal is a pay and conditions of service package which will radically alter the job of teaching and if pushed through be a and to everyone in er everyone in the public sector.
A big factor in the present situation is the decision of the Education Institute Scotland, the TUC affiliated teacher union in Scotland, to reject moves by Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Scotland, to imone-day strike will be tar in Edin on 4 December In burgh and militants north of the border led by the Glasgow-based Campaign For Fighting (CAFU), wi ill be calling for * DESPITE Mr. Bake fought unitedl Alternative sale of the in yar boy ance N.U.T. n Utopia DESPITE A massive campaign by the right wing leadership of the National Union of Teachers in favour of the deal that they agreed with the Labour-led local education employers, the Special Conference of the union held in Blackpool on Saturday 29 November endorsed their position by the small majority of 21,584. The delegates voted 122,557 in favour and 100,973 further action to extend the campaign. Doug McAvoy jection of the deal agreed with the Authorities would guarantee an intervention Kenneth Baker, Secretary of State for Education. Baker has atene House his own pay package and he is also intending to bring in legislation to scrap the pay negotiating committee and set up an 'advisory body'.
The leaders of the NUT would not have been successful at the without the backin members of the munist Party, Morning Star upporters Communist Party of Britain (Marxist Leninist), New Communist Party and others. betrayal is far from over. the same time that NUT being balloted, members of the other TUC-affiliated the National Association Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NAS/UWT) will be voting their intention to fight Baker's proposals eX plained WaN deal anyway. welcomes the fact that the right-wing union leaders are prepared to accept a contract that increases the working of most teachers by 5 days and adds an average of 4 hours onto the working week. Press reports present the agreement as a 16.4 per cent increase for teachers. But it is in fact worth less than 8 per cent. The increases spread over 2 years teachers were awarded 5.5 per cent of this years in crease back in May! The in creases on offer in the se cond year of the deal will only be paid for 7 months of the year. The new pay scale promises teachers a higher maximum wage but it will take a teacher starting work next September least 15 years to get there.
Opponents of the negotiated deal made clear on the deal and are being urged by their leaders to reject Despite inter bureaucratic wrangles, the rank and file of both unions recognise that a joint fight by the two unions could turn the tables on the mployers and be a powe ul force which could lin up with Scottish teachers against the government.
of the Inner London bs the Socialist Teachers already distributed 40,000 copies of a broadsheet which exposes the nature of the agree ment. In the coming weeks they plan to link up with like Bradford alcas.
Coventry, to build a massive opposition to the deal with the objective of winning the union round to a militant defence of teachers pay and conditions Such an achievement would not only be important for teachers, it would be of reate campaign to defend significance Education, support the fight of other the Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA) whick is submitting a wage claim in the nea future.
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The deal signed at ACAS should be opposed - • worses cocondinons of serious pay rises:
conferenates The fight against this"