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Europe £24 Airmail £34 (Double these rates for multi-reader institutions) government's union policy. JON SILBERMAN reports. THE sentences were decided by the union's appeals committee - composed entirely of executive committee members following an appeal by national officers of the union against the decision of the union's disciplinary committee that tion (ILTA) and one ILTA delegate have been expelled from the NUT, and five ILTA officers have been suspended for one year plus a further banning from holding union office for one year, and the other 43 members of the ILTA Council have been forced to sign an undertaking not to break the rules of the union. All this because they took strike action against the Tory Conditions Bill which eliminates teachers' negotiating rights, in line with the suspended members be reinstated.
In a move which completely overturns all norms of natural justice, the bro secution appealed, changed the nature of the charge in the process and then those trom attending the hearing presenting their defence!
A special motion, signed by some 400 NUT conference delegates, to suspend standing oraers allow a debate on a motion would have conference the right to hear appeals by those suspendea and expelled was ruled out of order.
The suspension of standing orders was moved by national disciplinary chair, Harry Levitt who additionally distributed a statement to delegates protesting whereby justice was not 'seen to be standing the union reflected the disgust of a growing number delegates at the overturning of such an issue of basic principle. Two to three hun dred NUT members lobbiec conference to show their opposition.
One delegate who spol in the debate on unity be ween the NUT NAS/UWT in favour of one TUC-affiliated union for teachers was especially warmly received when hi urged unity within the NUT itself through an end to suspensions and expulsions. Meeting defends ILTA 8, pag