the pit.
The various legs' of the march will be linking up with other workers fighting job losses and closures in the area and there will be representatives from Burnsalls strikers in Birmingham and Timex strikers in Dundee on each 'leg' of the March.
various events have been or ganised along the route in solidarity with the march.
The march is jointly organIsed by: North West TUC North West Miners Support Group Network and Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC).
Contact 0942 884763 for more information on sponsor. ing or joining the march.
secretary Oxfordshire NUT (personal capacity) THE 13 May NUT ballot result on boycotting SATs delivered the tests the final knock-out. The majority for the boycott was overwhelming - 96.2 percent of the The turn-out of 70 per cent on a full postal ballot represents the strength of feeling, and the effectiveness of the campaigning As Tories go for kill on privatisation... by activists.
This result was much better than that achieved in the NASUWT and the ATL who focused solely on the issue of workload. The NUT addressed the political and educational issues. The NUT remains committed to a boycott of the tests next year unless a more acceptduced.
The NASUWT and ATL have made it clear that once the workload issue is addressed Incy will co-oporaic tully with the tests. There is a real danger that the Tories will split teacher opposition to their test and league lable project. John Patten has already made it clear that he will 'slim down' the tests for next year.
The key to defeating the Tories education project lies in forging a durable alliance bepared to wage the political struggle.
With the possible extension of the anti-union laws to prohibit a legal boycott next year tie contions for a turer defeat of the Tories will disappear unless the halting of the SATs this year is rumed into a mass rejection of the selective educaing to introduce.