objectives for OUl the pay. ference was the card vote (103,000 to 96,000) which supported the Lambeth amendment to the executive report. This effectively places the NUT behind the miners' fight to save jobs, failures of the TUC to give serious support to the miners.
This decision was important for two reasons.
'irstly comes union with an insular sectoral background which meer Dressure o or ac LINC tacks is beginning to break protessionalism. Secondly, it is the first major meet since the end of the in gauging realignment of the labour movement tollow. ing the strike this decision is positiye, ana cuts across at the Scarborough conwhile criticising the the conclusions drawn some sections of the lei who have started the retreat and allied with Neil For the left of the Socialist Teachers Alliance is the biggest component. there were many successes Lambeth NUT (personal capacity)
The entire conference Blanco ANDES (the El Salvador teachers' union) when he addressed conference. A majority of delegates SubDOrtCu move to suspend standing orders SO that the could discuss opposition to the threatened deporta tion ot Zubair Ali, a teacher in Tower Hamlets. Although the required two-thirds majority was not achieved. the new president Gordon Greene was compelled to read out deportation threat. statement against the Further evidence of the NUT sional in limitations out 'professional' was unanimous opposition the Devon education authority's attempt to ban the wcasina of badges the displaying stickers which might be construed to be political.
Socialist Action
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THE NUT has been forced to step up action on More astonishing