SC Trade Union Conference UNITY IN ACTION AND POLITICAL DEMANDS'

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TESSA VAN GELDEREN, S member of the Association which Further and Higher Education, and of Brent Trades Council. explains why she will be coming for to the Socialis: Challenge Trade nurseries Union Conference.

The recent pay settlement for teachers such as myselt in higher education was in line with that of sectors, and bankruptey of the NATHE leadership's policy.

We failed to recover the the demands or money that we have lost over the past few years, and the very important demand to merge One positive step was a the bottom two pay scales has standard oftenching. Nor has a Then Alan Fisher tried to supporting an National as a whimper.

Teachers im This are, of course, - valuable step in the huge public showed the WAGES in public alternative management fail to meet the Tacist demand affects the majority of the membership.

quotas. mainly to be found in the first grade. It was breaking differentials imposed by Houghton, which are hierarchical and divisive.

And it is not only on wages tbat the union has failed us. vital: Little action has been taken on expenditure, muSL which affect our jobs and our La member with the MISES students and the immigration controls which buttress these FIGHT BACK There is an urgent need to fight back with class struggl demands across the trade union movement. Thac is why forthcoming Socialist Challenge Trade Linion Con ference will be important. It will be a forum to discuss these questions facing militants in the unions, but it Play the DisEs the fight-back.

This need becomes more urgent when we look •ar struggles such as Cirubwick. As of Brent Trades Council, I have been involved Pregning in gust 1976 it strike from been evident that the spontaneous response of the labour movement — magnifi cent as it was, and an essential I pre-requisite for any successful outcome to the dispute — was What was required was unily in action and political demands that would carry the struggle Tureaucracy of APEX and the Such unity can only come miticants in the labour movement being pre pared to work together and not subordinate the class struggle to the needs of their own Photo MARK RUSHER TEL TESSA VAN GELDEREN individual organisation. That wity welcome conference and hope that orber tendencies in the trade union movement will respond to it in a positive way.

victory at Grunwick would not just have aided the struggle Garners and Sandersons, bit sowd have been a victory for the whole working class. The conference DILUSL Grunwiel and take it back into learn the lessons the labour movenient. With all the recent defeats we've suffered, the need for a class struggle tendency was never more urgent.