The 270 sacked Lufthansa Skychef workers at Heathrow Airport are now in tae twcita month of their struggle for reinThe workers were sacked for taking part in an official one-day strike over the decision by the airline catering company (a subsidiary of Lufthansa airlines) to impose new working arrange ments without the agreement of the workers or their TGWU The company sacked not only were on leave or sick at the time and who admitted they would have joined the strike if they had been at work Under new legislation which protects strikers in the first eight weeks of an official strike, the sacking would have been illegal.
Having raised expectations that it was willing to settle the dispute on favourable terms, the company inen waac & acusory onct. a vague possibility of a job at some indeterminate time in the future or a severance nayment of £220 for each year of service.
Not surprisingly the have rejected this offer. They are now calling for the labour morement to redouble its support for the strike by:spreading the boycott of Lufthansa Airlines and using airlines which don't contract their catering to Lufthansa Skychefs • supporting the 24 hour picket line (Faggs Road just off the A30 near Hatton Cross tube station)
• making donations to help the (cheques payable to the T & G with "Sky. chefs" written on the reverse and sent to T & G Regional Office, "Woodberry", 218 Green Lanes, London N4 2HB). Contact this address for campaign materials.
wrung protests to buttuansa German Airlines, von Gablenz Str 2-6, 50679 Cologne, Germany deliver results be schools with a 'better' intake.
Schools which have a more working class intake will find it harder to attract teachers whose pay 1s dependent on their ability to 'meet targets' often beyond their control.
Not achievable All teachers know that "results" -whether measured by exam results, attendance or any of the other 'exemplar' measures contained in the government's guidance on the implementation of the green paper are not achierable by them as obtain pay based on performance depends mainly on the intake of the school.
As Nick Davies showed in his recent series of articles for The Watchels compreensive educa tion has been considerably undermined educational reforms, continued by which led to the increasing division of schools by social class.
Ofsted criteria mean that schools likely to attain less than average money at the scheme in ine wist ycat 10 "bed it in". programme be expected to to the job (attending training in and 'should be exempted form the working time limits that apply to other classroom teachers"
This will out pressure on all teachers to work even longer hours cach week than the 48 reported in the NUT's own surveys.
The division of the workforce by payment according to results will undermine the teamwork essential for teachers to do their jobs.
Teachers will be more reluctant to share ideas, lake on cilicult pupils and classes, or support other vention if they know a colleague is than they are. Pupils as well as The very existence of the teachthe green paper. effectively