Oxfordshire NUT (personal capacity)
sions. OVER fifty NUT activists representing twenty nine associations and divisions (branches) attended an unofficial pay and tacks. conditions conference convened by Oxfordshire NUT on November 12.
Supported by both left oppositions within the NUT - the crete tasks. STA and CDFU - the conference marks a significant development in joint left work bodes well for the future.
At present the Left is close to commanding a stable majority at annual conference and can win motions committing the Union to fighting policies on appraisal and Performance Related Pay; over-size classes; increases in workload, and so on.
However, the right-wing majority on the National Executive resolutely refuses to implement conference deciWhat action there is is fragmented and isolated, defensive in character and unable to reverse the tide of Tory atThe Oxford conference, recognised that it cannot substitute itself for an absence of national leadership, but agreed on a few useful conA co-ordinating committee was elected to produce a national newsletter to publicise campaigns and action.
The committee was also charged with establishing a regular series of 'unofficial' conferences and to organise a lobby of the Union's executive to coincide with the publication of the School Teachers' Review body report.