NUT conference THE right-wing executive of the National Union of Teachers will be calling on delegates to the ference this weekend to support a vote of confidence in the By Des Tierney important days of their occupation so far.
Thursday 30 April is the day that the factory ofthe Tory union's annual conexecutive for THE workers occupying the Lee Jeans factory at Greenock are preparing for one of the most LIVERPOOL TO LONDON 1-31 MAY upholding union rules.
The motion is an attack on members who wish to build united action by trade unionists against cuts, such as the six officers of the Lambeth Teachers Association.
Last week the NUT's appeals' committee, consisting of the executive minus the national officers, rejected an appeal from the six.
The NUT executive has taken a whole page of the union's weekly paper, The Teacher, to pursue its vendetta. It criticised attempts to 'involve branches of the Labour Party' in what it describes as 'essentially an internal union matter' This is not the view of an increasing number of includig teachers Campaign, MPs, councillors, Labour Party branches, and a growing number of trade unionists and trades councils, including the Greater London Association of Trades Councils.
It is vital that Labour Party members and trade unionists take up the defence of the Lambeth Six and show the NUT leadership fighting the cuts is a recipe for defeat tor everyone Messages of support to: Lambeth Six Defence Wheathill London Si Copies to Fred Jarvis, NUT Gen Sec, House, Mabledon Place, London WCI.
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