indeed all the unions organising in the schools education sector) is the creation of Education Action Zones (see facing Initially promoted as "imaginative" and "forward thinking" ways of addressing the needs of pupils in disadvantaged areas, their character can now be seen as something very different.
With so-much talk of increasing the working day and year for teachers, EAZs will be the test beds - if extra work can be screwed out of teachers in these areas, then the scene will be set for a more generalised offensive.
Assurances
Despite assurances from Blunkett in a letter to McAvoy that EAZs do not mark the first step towards privatising education, it is patently obvious that this is what they are.
To date the Union's strategy has been to encourage LEAs to put in 'friendly' bids to establish EAZs, in preference to more predatory businesses, and to secure guarantees that teachers' pay & conditions will not be worsened.
ume 2 of Capital, in keeping these two sectors in harmony, so