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derisory vote for action, negotiators pected of expecting In fact 45 per cent was extremely encouraging given that NALGO had decided to hold the 'biggest ballol ever held on pay' over the six week summer holiday period.
The London leadership built up its prestige ove many years of establishing decent wages and condiThis is the worst possible meetings in support of the Calls The ballot two months after the rise should have been paid, and we had already been offered six percent figure pitched by the employers to head off a So the 45 per cent vote does represent a growing 20 2 Cn resentment at progressive loss of earning power and at low pay in local govern. ment. The claim was per cent or f900, whichever is the greater, which, would return all members pay to 1980 levels and help the low paid. The *flat rate element is especially important in a union with over 25 per cent in the 'low pay' bracket.
Even if there is government after the next election, Neil Kinnock has declared at the TUC that 'there will be no blank cheques for any set ot workers' - that is no promises to honour any manifesto committments.
The Coventry, agree. ment's proposed 1990 means that aspects of working conditions and nav wil be under the microscope. But more still is at stake, with the intervention of industry into education, Tories baying for 'teacher appraisal', and currently the Secretary of State Kenneth Baker attacking the ILEA for daring to have material in schools DEAL FOR TEACHERS The Inner London Teachers Association has produced this attractive 3-p case against hice dive.
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