The Socialist 4 May 2011

NHS cuts: Stop the Con-Dem wreckers

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Cracks grow in Con-Dem coalition

Cuts hit disabled people hard

Review: The monarchy - reserve weapon of the ruling class?

May Day in Kazakhstan marked by attacks on socialists

Coventry residents' victory over Academy land snatch

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More teachers vote for pensions strike ballot

Rotherham teachers strike again to defend their union rep

National Shop Stewards Network

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Osama Bin Laden - killed by US forces

Socialists elected to leading positions in Greenwich Unite

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More teachers vote for pensions strike ballot

Headteachers have voted overwhelmingly to ballot for strike action over pension cuts. At the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers 99.6% voted for a ballot, while 0.4% abstained.

They join other teaching unions NUT and ATL, who are likely to strike at the end of June over the same issue, probably with the lecturers' union UCU and civil service union PCS.

NASUWT members should be demanding a strike ballot as well, so they can prepare to join the action.

Mike, a young teacher and NUT member from east London explains why strike action is necessary: "I'll be £230,000 worse off under the proposed scheme if I have taken my pension for 25 years, and will no doubt have to use a Zimmer frame while teaching at the grand old age of 68, if I can reach the chalkboard or control a class of highly energetic 16 year olds.

"I will be paying an extra £84 each month in contributions (this amounts to over £33,000 over 38 years) which will not help me to pay off my student debt, nor get a deposit for a flat. Pay much more, work more, get much less, I won't pay for the bankers' profligacy with my pension!"

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