IAN MURCH, recently elected Treasurer of the teachers' union NUT, has been suspended from the union for one day less than six months.
lan, the Bradford NUT secretary. was the left candidate in the election where he defealed Gordon Green, a leading member of the misnamed Broad Left.
He was charged with various ottences arising out of the iv programme 'Class Action', which ran a feature on the NUT earher in the year He was elected as treasurer on a platform which included a careful scruuny or all aspects or union tinances Many mombers will wonder what the union leadership feels it has to hide. They may feel is is not unconnocted with press reports of big undeclared increases in General Secretary Doug No. 23 McAvoy's salary.
Murch's suspension could, of the fact that the national executive ap pear to have the right to nominate his replacement Stops are already being taken to ment by activists in the union's main Teachers Aliance and the Campaign for a Democratic and Fighting Union.
Motons had already started to be sent to NUT headquarters a few days should be. immediately raising this issue at all levels of the union and supporting the defence campaign that is eing built The leadership of the union were defeated last time they suspended left wingers, in London. It is essential they get similar treatment this time.
June 13, 1992
Published fortnightly Solidarity price 21 Strikers and claimants 25p No 23 June 13, 1992 socialist