J30 strike: NUT, PCS, UCU, ATL call for a general strike on June 30th
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nino_savatte
No pasaran!
The ATL too. The ATL never go out on strike.
dennisr
the acceptable face
Report from the recent PCS conference:
PCS conference: developing strategies for struggle
John McInally, national vice-president: "PCS conference was genuinely historic. Delegates voted overwhelmingly to support the national executive's emergency motion calling for an industrial action ballot to oppose the government's attacks on jobs, pay, pensions and conditions. Only two out of a thousand voted 'no'! A 'yes' vote will set the scene for a major strike on 30 June involving up to three quarters of a million public sector workers. This will be the first major shot in an unfolding campaign that can lead in the autumn to industrial action involving millions."
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/ar...conference-developing-strategies-for-struggle
And the CWU has for 24-hour general strike against cuts: the conference has voted unanimously to call on the TUC to coordinate a 24-hour general strike against the cuts and attacks on wages and pensions. The union also resolved to work with other trade unions and campaigning organisations to stop the cuts in local areas, including through coordinating campaigns and strike action.
PCS conference: developing strategies for struggle
John McInally, national vice-president: "PCS conference was genuinely historic. Delegates voted overwhelmingly to support the national executive's emergency motion calling for an industrial action ballot to oppose the government's attacks on jobs, pay, pensions and conditions. Only two out of a thousand voted 'no'! A 'yes' vote will set the scene for a major strike on 30 June involving up to three quarters of a million public sector workers. This will be the first major shot in an unfolding campaign that can lead in the autumn to industrial action involving millions."
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/ar...conference-developing-strategies-for-struggle
And the CWU has for 24-hour general strike against cuts: the conference has voted unanimously to call on the TUC to coordinate a 24-hour general strike against the cuts and attacks on wages and pensions. The union also resolved to work with other trade unions and campaigning organisations to stop the cuts in local areas, including through coordinating campaigns and strike action.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
They're feeling threatened.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
My contract finishes on june 30th.. I asked if they could finish it a day earlier but they said noI'll be out in the late afternoon somewhere though, amybe at Brum Uni as well so I might see you there
Nice one.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Yeah, there will need to be sustained/rolling strike action..
UCU are talking about this for the autumn term
Was also earwigging on a conversation between the NASUWT rep and one of the teachers at my school and the NAS rep was saying that what teachers needed to do was to go out until they starve - he reckoned that it would take a month before parents would start insisting the govt. backed down.
He was up for a strategy of NUT one day, NAS the next, then ATL, then NAHT, ASCL etc.. one day strikes from each union but on different days so most schools would be shut every day but teachers would retain more pay..
UCU are talking about this for the autumn term
Was also earwigging on a conversation between the NASUWT rep and one of the teachers at my school and the NAS rep was saying that what teachers needed to do was to go out until they starve - he reckoned that it would take a month before parents would start insisting the govt. backed down.
He was up for a strategy of NUT one day, NAS the next, then ATL, then NAHT, ASCL etc.. one day strikes from each union but on different days so most schools would be shut every day but teachers would retain more pay..
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
When I got back to work after PCS Conference the biggest complaint was that it was just 1 day. There's a surprising level of support for a much longer strike.
josef1878
Well-Known Member
I agree. The pay freeze is biting. Job cuts and office closures looming. A one off is pointless. Time for rolling action.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
From the grassroots and/or from the union leadership?
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
Rank and file members, folk I work with, union members but not elected officials.
spliff
New Member
I think it should be a statement.
There's a lot of people in this country who are pissed off because of what is happening to them.
A rolling strike is just disruption which is an irritant much like the early postal strikes.
A day of action could get a good response if it was presented in the right way.
SAVE is the word.
grogwilton
Well-Known Member
Not sure about that Tom, think many schools would not close if unions were being called out individually on separate days, could also be quite devisive if members in one of the unions scabbed.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Yeah, that's true especially if one of the unions was small or non-existant in a school then there'd be no reason for the school to close.. He (and I) definitely preferred the idea of everyone out until they starve but I think was suggesting different unions going out on different days as a better strategy than everyone going out on a single day, if a single day was all the strike was going to be.. which would make more sense than trying to maintain a rolling strike through one day actions.
Yes they can.
Phone in sick - do not express any support for the strike in front of people you arent 100% sure about.
Anyone can be sacked for going on strike btw.
And lastly this is not a general strike and I think it's misleading to describe it as such, it's a national strike involving a large number of public sector workers and is a good first step to hopefully a series of strikes across the year, and hopefully later Unison will also be involved - but I think calling it a general strike is potentially disempowering at this stage.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
and yet NASUWT party line is that there's no need to strike because a) teachers won't have support of the parents, and b) the govt haven't made any decisions yet.
NASUWT members at my school are really pissed off with their tory-supporting, weak-arsed union.
Me, I'm NUT. we'll be out even though we're an academy, which makes things trickier. It helps that the Headteachers Union is supportive (and planning their own ballot for september action). Heads have got the most to lose in the 'salary average' part of the pension cuts.
Teachers have never done continuous strike action, btw - and i'd be astounded if they voted for it.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Salary average is fair. Using it to bring down the average pension paid, is not. Two different things, I think. There's no reason high earners should be allowed to take out a larger slice than they put in just because they got to the top. The problem is that the govt won't be rebalancing the total, they'll be reducing it.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i don't disagree and it's likely to be better for me as i can see myself shedding responsibility points as I get older - but i think with pensions there's a broader issue that if people sign up and pay into agreement A, it's not then fair to tell them they'll be getting a completely different outcome.
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
No, there's gonna be pressure put on them to ballot 'alongside' UNITE in the Autumn.
Meanwhile GMB are actively supporting the moves towards Salary average from what I can see.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
I couldn't agree more! I have 10 years worth of public sector pension that was part of the deal when I accepted shit pay. Now I've done the work for the shit pay, they're going to halve my pension. I never knew they were allowed to renege on their side of it. Especially when the flexible employer part turned out to be a fucking great lie too, hence my now being self-employed by the same fucking institutions that won't give me a job.
It's just a Tory ruse. They want the workers to aspire to higher level posts so they can start taking backhanders, like all the proper respectable public servants. 
Edit: last time there was a strike some management I met (smem?) asked people to say in advance if they were going to be out of the office that day and to explain why. I called the Union to find out if it was legal to do that and they said it was. So much for private balllots and rights of dissent...
Edit: last time there was a strike some management I met (smem?) asked people to say in advance if they were going to be out of the office that day and to explain why. I called the Union to find out if it was legal to do that and they said it was. So much for private balllots and rights of dissent...
grogwilton
Well-Known Member
I'm the NUT rep in my school and as NAS are slightly bigger I make a point of not approaching any established NAS members, only recruiting new staff who aren't in a union and trainees. Despite this 2 NAS members have left the NAS over this and joined the NUT.
To be fair to NASUWT they're currently balloting for strike action over a school going over to academy status in Newcastle, in fact they may have balloted by now and it will be a successful ballot. They're not uniformly shit, though obviously NUT are traditionally the better one.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
The Birmingham open assembly mentioned int he OP has changed date to Friday 10th, at 6:30pm.. still meeting guild of students reception at the university of Birmingham.
NASUWT has also been active in Coventry fighting against academies.. hopefully they will support strike action in the autumn once they've finished thinking that they might be able to just talk the government out of the pension changes.
NASUWT has also been active in Coventry fighting against academies.. hopefully they will support strike action in the autumn once they've finished thinking that they might be able to just talk the government out of the pension changes.
