Teachers to march and lobby for claim

THERE will be a march and mass lobby of parliament by teachers on Tuesday, October 21. It is being sponsored by the Inner London Teacher's Association (National Union of Teachers) and by the Extra Metropolitan Committee covering all the London boroughs.

A big turnout of teach- -ers is expected to take specially part of the NuT's Although the lobby ampaign tor an interim pay claim of £135 a year extra fol all teachers, there must be a determined effort to broaden the scope of the demonstraTo win the claim means to defeat the government's Prices and Incomes Act.

The pay fight must be linked to a government's education cuts, against the sackings of part.

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Unemployment among teachers is rising.

Newly qualified teachers are still looking for jobs because they cannot or will not move to an area where there are vacancies', says the NUT journal "The Teacher' in its current issue.

Nearly 150 teachers are on the Department of Employment and Productivity's registers in the West Midlands, Bristol, Yorkshire and Humberside DEP considers the DEP numbers may well be much larger since many do not register.

In London there are 200 unemployed teachers.

At the same time the Inner London Education Authority has just produced a literacy survey report stating that one in three of London's junior schoo children need extra teaching help with reading and over half London's schools have no teachers qualified to teach reading.

Yet many local councils are decreasing their teaching staff as part of the government's education cut-back and classes of over 40 are on the increase in junior schools.

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