Teachers accept 7½% without a fight

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Socialist Teachers Alliance AT A special Conference last weekend, the teacher's union rejected a fight for its pay claim of 15 per cent. Instead delegates cepted a pitiful 7½ per cent.

Icallicis al c WOrTed inical unemployment, should have argued wages did mean fewer jobs. But there was no senious Call Dalzil Ovel the pay claim.

Claim The executive accepts that the deal leaves us which will certainly picase tne Tories.

Instead of co-ordinating the claim with that of other public sector which would have laid the action, the executive bleated that we could not have achieved anything better without a sunke and une membership wouldn't stand for that'.

Critics Instead of defending the it es of its vibers, members, flas susochuca ornicers LamloclI eachers ASsoCianon because Loev organised suD port for joint trade union acThe six want support fron Il NUT branches and labou Eight Labour Wallpall MPs, includile 1 only bell. have already given their support.

Picket the NUT executive when suspended NUT the appeal members heard: Saturday April. ramalon Mabledon Place, London WCI.

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