told by the NUS Executive when to end our occupations. We want the NUS Executive to get off its backside and do the jobs we tell it to 'All the things the National Executive is now telling us to do have already been done in the North West. The Merseyside and North West Areas of the NUS were brought together. There is a single co-ordinating committee.
•We have gone to the unions, we have gone to the Labour Parties -and we've got support. All the schools in the area have been divided into teaching practice divisions, and we are going out into the schools approaching every individual teacher, not just the National Union of Teachers.
*We have divided up all the industrial estates in South West Lancashire for leafleting. The local education authorities have been occupied. Every meeting of the council, of the education committee, of the further education sub-committee has been picketand voted to:
gan "No Deal with Healey occupied London colleges.
movement in the localities. end its cuts and guarantee jobs for all.
penditure. Last Saturday's National Union of Students conference for colleges in action threw out the Executive's proposals for the campaign BUILD a mass lobby and demonstration out side the special TUC on 16 June under the slo Fight for the Right to Work', rather than I olding a separate national demonstration on 15 June. The lobby starts at 9 am at Central Hall, Westminster. Book over night coaches now/arrange accommodation with ORGANISE a day of local action on 15 June to forge links with the labour and trade union Hold a WEEK OF ACTION preceding the lobby, the ground to be laid for an ongoing campaign by cordinating committees in every area, organising pickets, demonstrations, occupations of local education authorities, etc. on the basis of:
* Demanding that the Labour Government Demanding that local authorities guarantee jobs for all student teachers and local authority employees and allow student and labour move ment representatives to examine plans for exSetting up democratically elected ACTION COMMITTEES in the localities involving trade union and Labour Party representatives.
*'Unemployment Survey' desks, called for by the NUS in all colleges, to be expanded to include representatives from local labour move ment bodies as e step toward organised labour/ student enquiries into the effects of the cuts in education as a whole The conference also called for the continua tion and extension of the OCCUPATIONS until at least the lobby and demonstration.
Recognising the importance of student worker unity in action, the conference called for:
All trade unions to consider industrial action in support of the campaign. The NUS to use every means to bring pressure to bear on the trade unions, especially the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters The teachers' unions to extend the policy of no cover for absence or non appointed teachers, and refuse to take classes over 30 (in line with 1969 NUT conference resolution).
All teachers' unions to grant qualified teachers full trade union rights at a reduced rate when they are unemployed The conference demanded that the NUS Execu tive campaign for other sectors to take up the question of unemployment and reverse its present policy of concentrating almost solely on teacher unemployment in its propaganda, The threat to the jobs of student teachers is a direct result of the Labour Government's policy of cuts and unemployment, as spelled out in Healey's White Paper.
The denial of jobs to student teachers is part of an attack on the entire working class, on students, on school leavers, and on the social services. All victims of the cuts must unite against the entire policy of cuts and unemploy ment. has already been done.
•We haven't just been sitting round in Moray House for the last month. In Edinburgh not only are three Colleges of Education occupied, but also one central college, one art college and Heriot Watt University. All have the same problem. For example, Moray House also trains social workers — who have no jobs.
We are not fighting the problem of teacher unemployment, we are fighting the whole problem of unemployment. That's why in Edinburgh we have set up a coordinating committee of all colleges and are aiming ourselves at three decisive sectors: health students and workers, those involved in education and the schools, and the construction industry.
'On the local day of action on 15 June we want students and workers on the march. Edinburgh NALGO (the local government workers' union) is supporting a strike, and the local executive of the Educational Institute of Scotland (the Scottish teachers' union) has called for a strike which they hope will close schools in the Lothian region. From there we move to the lobby of the TUC on 16 June.