FORThe second annual 'Alliance for Socialism' weekend of debate, discussion, and agitation sponsored by Socialist Action.
overwhelming y concern' 'grave scab beds.
support of the strikers, Rubner which is cerned, he said.
it to do, by not selling Silentnight beds.
'We've been out Newton, really bad.' been receiving, you must support us 100 per cent.
who have supported Charlie Gee, Mineworkers rally last weekend.
solidarity with them.
stronger.
the platform stalllg It is good that beds, Boycott that shop. That's what's necessary.
be made to: Terry Bennett, Rainhill Crescent, (phone: 0282 813662).
Teachers sell-out isting proposals on pay complete an horrendous over the past 18 months.
tually cover 60.
under the control of head teachers, working year will be increased by one week.
deductions - some a pay cut!
a special conference.
call that until the deal is watertight.
cover, ut Socialist paid tribute to the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union workers at Silentnight Bedding, who have been on strike now for expressed the Wholesale Society continues to stock and sell Speaking at a TUC fringe meeting organised in general secretary Ben resolution was carried unanimously at last year's TUC. It is regrettable that not all organisations have acted highlighted in particular the Coop, he said. The Cesop has not cooperated excuses as tar as were con with that strategy, which we would have expected Janet Seymour from Barnoldswick, and Steve Newtou from Stutton-in-Craven, the two factories involved in the strike, were also on the platform.
for 15 months,' said Steve "And the hardship we are suffering is He described the support that the strikers had financial and on the picket line, and the scheme whereby Labour Parties and trade union branches are asked to adopt a striker's fami.
'We will win,' Newton told the audience, 'But Miners and the print workers are among those Silentnight strikers. an ex-Silentnight Connell other FTAT strikers were at the Notts Justice for •We've had a lot of help from the miners, Gee told Socialist Action. 'We're here to show our "The TUC passed a good resolution about the Coop. But I'd have preferred it if it was put a bit We could have done with people from should buy anything from shops stocking Silentnight beds.
people are not buying their • Requests for information and speakers should , 22 Garrick Street, Colne, Lancs (phone: 0282 603055). Donations to the Tuna snould be sent to. Ann King, 10 Barnoldswick, Colne, Lancs THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers executive met on Friday 5 September to ratify the deal on conditions that they had worked so hard to stitch up. Combined with the ex(the Coventry agreement), the executive has managed to package which destroys all the gains teachers have made Top of the list is the notion of return to cover for absent staff. This part of the agreement will allow local authorities deliberately to underspend, knowing that they can force teachers to 'contrac- even if it means primary classes of They can rely on it, as the NUT executive is going to help 'monitor' the agreement. It will police The school day will be more while the The pay deal, while placing all teachers (except heads and senior teachers) on a single scale, offers very little to most teachers. The big increases' at the bottom affect very few teachers. Also, the £750 being talked about is a one-off payment, subject to Thus, the talk of 15 per cent is rubbish. The actual basic salary increase is about half of that, and we have had 5 per cent through the interim award earlier this year. Most teachers have little to expect However, the package has not been ratified by And the executive will not In the meantime, particularly in relation to Teachers Ălliance will be fighting to halt the retreat. The feeling in schools, at present, is if they can't make us cover, we haven't lost despite the executive's betrayal.
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Rubner pointed out: 'An emergency within the spirit of that policy?
over a year. The resolution, moved by FTAT carried, expretied.