A CONFERENCE to organise the fight for rights of gays at work is being held later this month. Recent cases of victimisation show the need for such an initiative.
After two months in her job as a teacher, Ms X was summoned by the local education authority and told that she had been sacked because she was 'unfit to teach'. The authority had found out she was a lesbian 'A lesbian cannot be trusted to teach in a girls' SCROOl the girls are welldeveloped,' she was told.
Nobody seemed to mind about the number of men teaching in tue school.
John Saunders was sacked from his job maintenance worker in a schools holiday camp for being gay.
An industrial tribunhas recently formal policy of employing gay people in jobs involving youth, the elderly or the handicapped. Unions Gay people organising at the workplace and outside have begun to challenge all this. Gay groups now exist VALGO, NUPE, NUT, NATFHE the union for teachers in turthe education. OrganisaHOn Is beging the Lion Workers and in tae Union Communicaprint unions.
NALGO and the CPSA conferences have been won discrimination positions; to a limited extent these have been implemented in contracts of employARE YOU HE ? IN PROUDTO BEGRY! LIM PROVDIVHRPPY IN MAPPTIOBÉ PROUD Socialist Challenge Banned!
THE decision of the home secretary to ban all marches in London until end of the month has hit several protest actions.
The blanket ban was imposed after the NF had demon inreatenec strate Deptford las weekend The Hane of Socialist Lawyers says there are powers within the Public Ureers Ac as amenace the Relations The ban WIll , to stop fascists The 'recepwould have received in Deptford ma discouraged wel such The blanket ban af fects protests planned in London ov Nu cloud. student unions, racist groups, and 12 March 1981