of the chief issues at the National of Teachers conference at Easter was teachers' pay. On •25 March the employers made an offer of 4.5 per cent which Fred Jarvis, NUT general secretary, rejected on behalf of all teachers.
But in an hour long salary report Jarvis concentrated on the defeats of public sector workers on the pay front. A milk water executive resolution was adopted, which placed 'confidence in the union's negotiators'.
An amendment put forward by Socialist Teachers supporters, calling for preparation industrial action to win the union's full claim of 15 per cent was rejected.
executive member NUT Just a week after the the employers offered 4.98 per cent the establishment 'comparability machinery' to teachers pay compares with others and nOW found by the employers to pay tor te increase At an emergency executive meeting April, only seven out 42 members voted to BIC ject the offer. The union Will oe nolang a specia conterence Scaron 7 discuss the proposed settlement.
Left The Socialist Teachers which recruited members at the annual conference and is now largest lett torce the NUT, will be organis ing against the sell out.
At the annual COnference the consolidated position last year in cara volc of delegates, representing the 250,000 members of the it regularly scorec in excess of 90-100,000 on issues such as disarmament.
The right wing were •able to claw back some of the advances scored by the left last year — resolutions on CND was ruled out of order. But the conference