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Support for Greenings Delegations from the strike at N Greening Ltd., Warrington, have got a good response at Halewood, at local collieries, and at other branches of the parent company, Johnson Firth Brown.
400 workers at Greenings - members of GMBU, EETPU, AUEW, TASS and NSMM - are on strike against moves by management to abolish the annual wage claim, end negotiated holidays, reduce trade union facilities, and axe 89 jobs Messages/donations: N Greening JSSC, c/o Len Blood, St. John St., Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside.
(Deputy President, National Union of Students) being too many teachers, and his expressed desire to curtail subject choice for qualification in this field, no doubt we will see further reductions in this area.
The National Advisory Body, set up to co-ordinate the activities of the public sector higher education colleagues, has become little more than a device for implementing cuts in these colleges and then coming up with the rationale for so doing. The University Grants Committee is now effectively in a similar position.
This trend will no doubt worsen as a new Tory government pursues an even more ruthless monetarist strategy.
The further education sector is rapidly becoming part of the Manpower Services Commission, so colleges, faced with cuts in local authonty financing, take on more and more Youth Training Schemes, often with little idea of how to organise them.
Muddle
William Waldegrave recently admitted that further education was in a muddle. (His boss, Thatcher, went a step further by helpfully declaring that the whole education system was in a mess!! Whose fault is that, one might well ask!) Their solution to this mess will probably be to turn further education colleges into training centres, so that students wishing to pursue "academic" options will have no choice but to stay at school, whereas all non-academic courses will go to the colleges.
This will create a clear division between "training" and "education". , and between sixth forms in immediately with more cuts to come. 26,