bill by over 40 per cent.
campaign for arbitration.
right in the end.
The surrounding arbitration are a warning to all trade unions -particular. ACAS is not an NUM NACODS 1n body, not to be trusted.
Terms of arbitration in education are governed by Over the last ten years showed they were prepared to fight. The right-wing executive side-tracked this militancy into a The Socialist Teachers the Teachers. Renumeration Act, which provides for an arbitration panel of three people, OlIC nominated by each side, and an independent chairnominated ACAS.
The employers vetoed the first three names put forward by ACAS, on the ground that they were too pro-employee. The chairperson finally agreed on was a monetarist professor of economics, from the Manchester School of Business. He was the only one of the three members of the panel to sign the agreement. The teachers nominee refused to sign yet despite this the Act gives the government the power to impose the arbitration decision - which is exactly what they did. It little wonder that the NUT executive were forced at conference to accept an STA amendment that by IcAl should not go to arbitra- year's pay claim on 20 October, from their Bernard Reagan The main weakness of the special conference was the absence of any serious discussion on how to fight for the claim - particularly in the view of the fact that over 60,000 teaching jobs are threatened under rate-capping ingly acare of the impos- Teachers increas tance of the miners' strike their own issues. Over £1000 was collected for the miners at conference, as a result of initiatives by STA members on the executive.
important ferences being prepared which will give militants Lambet Chalce U Callse East London Associations (NUT Executive, personal capacity)
are organising conferences to prepare the fight for next year's pay claim. On 20 and 21 October the STA AGM will be discussing planning tor future action.
Agenda: 1) Pay; 2) Rate-capping; 3) Education;
4) Building the left.
Sat. 20 & 21 Robert Montefiore School, Valance Rd., con- E1. (Whitechapel underground) ACTIVISTS DIARY Apart freshers' weeks, at which support for the miners should be raised, prepare now for: • National Barrow, Make sur transport booked. Posters available local and national CND. • National ference, Sheffield, 23/24 /25 November. Deadline delegates Bon't November. hesitate, make sure your delegation will attend.
NUS women's
ference, Birmingham University, November. All women supporters urged to attend.
• Founding conference, 'Further Education Labour Students', Liverpool Polytechnic, 10/1 November Want advertise meetings or events in the activists diary? Write io 'Activists Socialist Action, 328 Upper Street, London NI 2XP
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THE NUT special salaries conference, meeting in Scarborough on 29 September agreed to submit a claim for 1985 which would increase the total wage
teachers pay has declined by 30 per cent, and this year's derisory settlement added insult to injury. Throughout this year's pay campaign teachers
Alliance (STA), the largest left group in the NUT, argued against this strategy, and they were proved
Photo: GM COOKSON Socialist Teachers Annual General Meeting