Good points- but how to progress this?
Jason writes:Brilliant rally in Bolton of about 150- excllent mood, militant speeches.
But I could hardly beleive my eyes in Manchester- 12-1500 on the streets. There's definitely the mood for further action and we should push for it as soon as poosible, you're right.
One tactic as you suggest is bombard the execuitve with demands for a ballot. At an 80 strong meeting of Bolton NUt we passed a motion calling for just this- and in the summer term.
But will the executive listen? Perhaps, if we get eneough associations- but even so we can't depend on them and we desperately need to get organised a genuine rank and file inititiative, workplace organisations, e-lists, getting new members and layers of activists involved.
Still harder said than done- but we should try and keep trying.
But what just might give this a real kick start this- what about electing strike committees in every workplace we can, having indicative ballots in every workplace we can, pushing for local actions- meetings, stalls, student meetings, addressing different union branches in other sectors, cross union committees.
And-crucially- pushing for ballots over local issues. Change of employer? Demand a ballot. Change of conditions or working day? Demand a ballot. Redundancies or any other job losses? Demand a ballot.
What do people think?
As an immediate step the left in the NUT should get organised and work together over these points and push for tactics that will win
But I could hardly beleive my eyes in Manchester- 12-1500 on the streets. There's definitely the mood for further action and we should push for it as soon as poosible, you're right.
One tactic as you suggest is bombard the execuitve with demands for a ballot. At an 80 strong meeting of Bolton NUt we passed a motion calling for just this- and in the summer term.
But will the executive listen? Perhaps, if we get eneough associations- but even so we can't depend on them and we desperately need to get organised a genuine rank and file inititiative, workplace organisations, e-lists, getting new members and layers of activists involved.
Still harder said than done- but we should try and keep trying.
But what just might give this a real kick start this- what about electing strike committees in every workplace we can, having indicative ballots in every workplace we can, pushing for local actions- meetings, stalls, student meetings, addressing different union branches in other sectors, cross union committees.
And-crucially- pushing for ballots over local issues. Change of employer? Demand a ballot. Change of conditions or working day? Demand a ballot. Redundancies or any other job losses? Demand a ballot.
What do people think?
As an immediate step the left in the NUT should get organised and work together over these points and push for tactics that will win
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