Teachers set to take action (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Teachers set to take action
11:28am Tuesday 11th September 2012 in News
TEACHERS are to take industrial action short of a strike in their bitter dispute with the Government over pay, jobs, pensions and workloads.
The National Union of Teachers and NASUWT said their members will take co-ordinated action from September 26.
The unions said the aim was not to affect pupils, with the action including not attending meetings, filling in forms or covering for absent staff.
Unions said the action was intended to be pupil, parent and public-friendly, whilst resisting Government policies which they said were undermining teachers' ability to work effectively.
Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: "Teachers' morale is dangerously low.”
Comments(5)
burner
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12:52pm Tue 11 Sep 12
jack daniels
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4:27pm Tue 11 Sep 12
burner wrote:A good point burner and I stand corrected.
"all" JD, ???? ALL ??? If you check the numbers, around 80% of those who were NUT members did NOT vote for any action - tail wagging dog. Check the numbers. Every other Teachers' Union member did not vote, either.
I wasn't aware of these factors - I just commented on the information the LT showed and the fact that the teachers are not walking out in this difficult time.
What I do find strange is why 73 per cent of the NUT's 229,000 members decided not to bother voting? What's the point of being in a Union if you're not going to use your vote, because if you add this to the NASUWT's previous vote, it suggests that 90% of the teachers in the country voted for this action, when clearly they didn't.
We thought Thatcher would destroy the Unions when it's clearly apathy which will bring them down.
BritainfortheBritish
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7:16pm Tue 11 Sep 12
Marsdogs
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7:48pm Fri 14 Sep 12
jack daniels says...
12:39pm Tue 11 Sep 12
well done all for deciding to 'work to rule' rather than the unpopular idea of a full blown strike.