THE AGREEMENT reached in the Burnham committee on 9 May represents a major blow to the effort of teachers to win back the 34 per cent lost over the last 10 years. Although it is portrayed as an interim settlement, the Labour-dominated employers, like the Tory government, are insisting that any furemployment.
•Hailed by the broad alliance leadership of the National of Teachers as a victory, the settlement plays right inte hands the employers. Whilst many teachers wil welcome the money - £519 or 5.5 per cent - the sacrifices they are being asked to make in relurn are totally unaccep• table.
NUT Executive (personal capacity)
Under the terms of the agreement the NUT leadershin gave a commitment to restore 'peace and in the schools. In particular this will hit the 'no-cover' action.
Most secondary school teachers have been refusing to cover any teacher absences in schools, a tactic which has exposed the massive understaffing in education. As a result hun dreds of thousands of pupils have been lome. In primary school teachers have ing for the first day of On Monday the NUT executive agreed that teachers should cover after the first day of This will create a doseuce. split between primary and secondary school teachers, and leave many teachers to face disciplinary action by local authority employers.
After 15 months of nocover action the overwhelming majority of teachers determined not to return to cover. Terwill receive because ey will receive because their move, the executive cancelled a briefing conference planned for this DATE: Wed., 2,1st MAY 1986 :VENUE
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ther increase this year will only be granted in return for teachers accepting far worsened conditions of
Dan Jones, Tower Hamlets Trades Council lan Mikardo MP, Bow & Poplar