for all teachers. The officers -'Gang of Four' Fred Jarvis and deputy McAvoy, have consistently taken In their latest move they have agreed to call off action in those local authorities WIfe Have agreed to a six point state30 per decline filiated unions, the NUT and the National Association of Schoolmastersof Women Teachers, the leadership of the latter organisation in particular 3Ilterest. They talking privately putting the claim to arbitration after a tew more weeks of action. Such a move would be a tota betrava. the teachers' case.
Last year when the claim did go to arbitration the teachers got a mere 0.6 per cent increase on the employers' original offer of 4.6 per cent. Far from acting like a trade union they have several times lined with LIC pro employers profes sionalist' groups to urge the NUT to get into the talks on a bosses' packag which would lead to a rea worsening of teachers conditions employment coupled with a process of assessment which would give more power to Headteachers..
While the NUT Executive remain resolutely opposed unis boncy, they have done little to develop a strategy to break the isolation of teachers by allies with the willulle who would provide real support for their case.