This year's NUT Conference got off to a really sour note when Reg Prentice took advantage of the platforn in order to step up still further his attacks on the workers movement. He appealed directly to teachers to take up the cudgels on behalf of the social contract inside the TUC.
Given the prescot crisis, the only answer, be said, "is a permanent soctal contract, a long-term voluntary incomes policy in which the wbole community exercises restraint...The more that is taken out of the national product for personal incomes. the less. is available for schools and hospitals."
The Union Exocutive clearly Sec med to accept this garbage from the man who, far from building more schools and improving the edneation syster, has been implementing the Tory education curs and a fer more of his twn.
The response of the Communist Party members - whose different sections can't seem to agree whether or not they support a social contract was to claim that more hospitals and schools is what the contract is all about. All they could come up with was empty rhetoric calling on the Labour and Corrunist Party dominated Executive to issue a er cuts in teacher training and the supply of teachers.
who also led the attack against an amendment from Sbettield NUT which spelled our a basis for tacklon local associations to mitiale a and trade unionists against all cutbacks in the education service".
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