Teachers march to back 27 June strike

Submitted by AWL on 25 June, 2013 - 9:28

500 teachers marched in London on 25 June to show support for the strike by teachers in the North West on 27 June.

The demonstration was a credit to the activists who had brought delegations and banners from their schools, but no credit to the supposedly left-wing leadership of the National Union of Teachers.

The 27 June regional strike is supposed to be a step in a long, slow - all too slow - campaign of industrial action by the National Union of Teachers, now in alliance with the NASUWT, on pay, workload, and even pensions.

However, at the end-of-march rally, NUT general secretary Christine Blower and others spoke generally of defending education, without advancing any idea of a campaign of precise industrial action with precise industrial objectives.

Teachers need that precise campaign, and are organising through the Local Associations Network to get it.

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