Baker's pay and conditions law.
London division, union policy against Baker. should retuse ensuring its defeat.
Moreover, the THE NATIONAL executive of the NUT have set out on a clear course following the union's conference in Eastbourne last month. Their two-pronged perspective involves pretending that the extremely limited level of action they proposed would be adequate to defeat Kenneth But the inadequacy of their proposals for fighting Baker had been exposed by the union's inner ILTA. The union's appeals committee voted to expel and suspend ILTA officers for organising unofficial strike action in support of " In opposition to prosecuting a militant strategs for fighting Baker along the lines of the ILTA campaign, the NUT leadership brought forward arguments about financial difficulties, threats of sequestration and other excuses to prevent escalation of any action. They equally opposed other proposals for action, notably ILTA's resolution that teachers cover for absent colleagues, But the executive did not get their way on all questions. Though not widely reported in the press, some of their own amendments were not carried by conference and they suffered defeats on the issues of the City Technical Colleges, the Tory government's privatisation of education proposals, and on the question of active opposition to Tory proposals to test youngsters from the age of seven upwards.
executive only released their 'guidelines' as to how they proposed to 'fight" Baker after an outcry by the delegates over their attempts to keep the guidelines secret for the duration of th This broad opposition to the executive, and the clear alternative strategy being offered by the leftwing Socialist Teachers Alliance and others has prompted an executive-led witch-hunt, their second This witch-hunt had already started prior to the conference, with the suspensions and expulsions of the ILTA officers. It continued with attacks on the STA by the union's treasurer and president who alleged STA 'treachery' because socialist teachers had told the truth about NUT membership figures The executive went so far as to draw up a proposed