This could have provided the Inamework for workers within education to gain broad support in the labour movement, and put teachers in a better position to defend both their own interests and those of the working class as a whole in defence of the education system. The Exec utive also moved hard against utrempti to get Conference to accept • Working Women's Charter It is clear that the fight back in the NUT aguinse the social contract and the education cuts is goute to be a hard one. The executive man aged to get the conference to accept the 1975 wape claim a claim within the social contract. While the moves to the sliding scale of pensions is a step forward it needs to be extended to wages by demandig across-the-board Increass and 'nil-norm' lieshold puyments to give automatic protection to all solacies aguinst the effects of inflation.
facing the open conference of socegates at Blackpool.
For a full report on the NUT debate on the Working Women's Charter, see page four.
These tasks will be amongst those ¡alist reachers called for by many del