ting over 250 amendments for debate.
tions of service of 400,000 teachers.
cover for a full-scale assault on trade union rights.
Giles Radice MP, Labour Party spokesperson on education, addressing mass lobby organised by the National Union of Teachers on Wednesday 10 December, declared that a ture Government would, as one of its first repea this legislation if it becomes law. The TUC has declared its opposition Bill and even the SDP/Liberal Alliance came KENNETH BAKER, Secretary of State for Education, was successful in pushing his Bill on teachers' pay and conditions of service through Parliament on Thursday, 11 December despite Labour MPs submitThe Bill, which now goes to the House of Lords, will abolish all existing negotiating machinery, establish an 'Advisory Committee' which will report to him and give him the sole rights to determine the pay and condiIt represents one of the most vicious attacks on trade union rights in the lifetime of this Government. It is similar to the attack on the GCHQ workers and confirms that the Tories' threat to ban industrial action in certain 'emergency' industries was simply a out against it.
Declarations of opposition will not be enough however. Industrial action will be needed to defeat the bill. But at the last meeting the NỰT, the right wing leadership relected a proposa. the Inner London Teachers' Association for a Baker one day national strike and demonstration early in the New Year to nut across the strength of opposition to the Bill.
The arguments used against the proposal ranged from the fake left one that a one day strike will not enough to defeat the Bill, to the now familiar one that tie lask is to will lie Dallie
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