IN THE WAKE of the NUT Easter conference, which failed to vote for effective action against job cuts, the NUT has admitted that thousands of teachers now face the sack.
The sackings stem directly from the government educa tion reforms, es pecially Local Management of Schools (LMS) which puts schools in charge Capping But cut h loi bit bo g drastic cut in local authority spending, a consequence of poll tax capping. Nationwide, schools are going into the red; teachers is the only way to balance the books. chers north of England alone. Staftorosture intend 900 compulsory teacher redundancies. cechers which will go since their salaries cost morea lot more given the current quence of course will be worsening education standards.
In the red The financial situation in Oxford middle schools is typical. There only one school is not heavily in the red - and that is because the headmaster is on sabbatical and replaced for one year with a cheaper substitute!
Ironically it is the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers which is threatening strike action against redundancies, rather than the NUT.
But NUT members at Walthey will strike unless redundancies are withdrawn by l June.
At the NUT conference calls for strike action against redunchers Alliance were defeated by a combination of the right wing, led by general secretary Doug McAvoy, and the so-called Broad Left.
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dancy nonces, or may, ap more and more tea. sell-out from NUT leaders, and of the capitulaton by locat authority unions and Labour councils to rate capping and sos ddo ti anis Maastricht demands of econthe government will over the next two years make the big. gest cuts in public services seen since the Tones came to power in 1979.
Waiting for the next Labour government won't pay either for teachers of any other sec tion of public sector workers. Anderson Hospital for women.