London. 'As need been increasing we have lost over tl milion ever week since 1979,' he said.
•n the last tive vears there has been tremendous SCI VICEs. the rates have been increased and we have lost 6000 jobs in local government. want to j with the peonie of Manchester to sav enough is enough?
Dick Pickering GMBATU underlined the problem job losses when he said that: 'For every three direct jobs lost in the public sector we lose a further two in the private which 24.6 per cent are women and Central district has an unemployed level of 34 per cent. Both these areas disadvanTeneci severe tages among ethnic The city council is committed to improvemployment among women, ethnic minorities and the disabled More than 40 per cent Manchester's unemployed have been out of work for more than a year, ano WOrS hit age group is the 25-54 band which is a staggering 47.6 In will be hit even harder on two tronts First there will be big cuts in the Rate SupDOlL Grant. The Tori will around £53 million that should be used to pay for jobs and serVICES. There will also be cuts in capital spending. If the government had only maintained Investment at only levels, there would have available to be spent: one £50 million more equivalent homes built every week. calling on the governmene council to return the monev it nas taken from the council and to restore focar ucluciary to all other councils. Council leaders lobby MPs • All information from. Manchester city council in. formation roon steel TOTallOn Room 305B, PO Box 532, Hall, TOWN M60 2LA; phone 061-234 3057/3024. The unit has copies of a pett tion for signatures and can provide speakers Jor Committee.
In an unprecedented February.
claim. the claim to arbitration.
The National win the claim by Ist April 1985.
tion and withdrawal Wednesday.
NUT teachers who are ill.
expected to marking and preparing teachers.
which they are not paid rent plan of action.
of fighting the miners, strike action and a levy.
tempts to limit pay increases.
ment for pay increases.
best form of solidarity with the NUM It will also MacGregor's book.
for real fight. MONDAY 11 February sees the next round of talks on teacher's pay in the Burnham move, however, members of the National Union of Teachers will begin national action on Wednesday 6 It is a real sign of the real determination which is building up around this year's pay The claim submitted by the teachers aims to restore the 35 per cent decline in the value of their pay which has taken place over the last 10 years.
'On 28 January, 3 months after the claim was first submitted the employers offered 4 per cent.
The teachers side unanimously rejected this and further opposed the bosses attempts to move Last year the teachers agreed to arbitration and saw the employers' meagre offer of 4.5 per cent turned into an award of merely 5.1 per cent.
Teachers Special Salaries Conference in September rejected any moves to go to arbitration and instructed the Executive to organise 'escalating stages of action' to It is under this pressure from the membership that and entire of all come a 'goodwill' from this members will no longer cover for Normally if a teacher is absent they would be look after extra classes instead of The NUT is totally opposed to this — at a time when there are an estimated 40,000 unemployed In addition they will refuse to do other 'out of hours' voluntary duties, like parent evenings for At a series of regional meetings throughout the country last week, briefings took place on the curHowever, recognising that teachers are going to be confronting a Tory Government already many union activists were demanding that the executive organise escalating What is needed is a united campaign by all public sector workers against the Government's al.
Teachers in England and Wales need to persuade Scottish teachers already involved in action for an independent pay review to abandon that goal and set up a united fight against the GovernSuch a review would simply be arbitration under another name — an employers' con trick.
The Socialist Teachers Alliance has been arguing that teachers will stand the best chance of winning their claim by fighting now whilst the miners are continuing to fight and that this would be the The Lambeth and East London NUT branche are organising a recall Salaries Conference on 9 March to organise within the union to fight for the £1200 flat rate which is at the centre of the claim.
be necessary to prepare for a counter-offensive by the employers whose leaders have taken more than a leaf or two out of Above all it will be necessary to organise independently to force the union executive to lead a