Nurs ich goes on!
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THE LATEST news on the nursery closures in Tower Hamlets, following a meeting with the staff of one threatened nursery, Queen Mary, is that the nurseries are safe until next March, when a complete review will take place.
However, Queen Mary have been told by management that they must stop campaigning!
This is blackmail: while cuts may be made in any case, the nurseries threatened with closure are being told to lie low and accept their fate.
The nursery campaign has answered with letters to parents saying that Queen Mary can only be defended by fighting back, and that their case must continue to be publicised in order to win wider labour movement and community support, and save the Building.
The nursery workers have just received another offer which does not alter the basic low pay _ merely offering a career time structure with senior nursery nurse posts.
This is obviously another way of trying to buy off a section of the workforce.
In fact, the demand for recognition of a third person in charge of a nurgery is not new among NALGO nursery workers, but the timing of this offer is seen as a divisive move by their employers.
Two nurseries coping with handicapped children are still not being offered the necessary extra money in recognition of the special care they offer, and unti that is sorted out the other pay grades cannot be properly negotiated.
As nursery workers' steward Jackie Rowledge told Socialist Organiser:
''To say that the nursery workers of Tower Hamlets are disgusted and angry about the non-payment of their national pay award would be the understatement of the century.
'It is now 20 months since the award was given, and all we have had is one offer which made a mockery of the national agreement - it was the lowest of all Inner London boroughs, and this at a time when problems in the East End are getting worse due to increasing unemployment and government cutbacks"
The nursery workers plan to escalate their workto -rule if their mass meeting next week rejects the latest offer.
The nursery campaign is holding a major fund-raising event to continue the fight against closures, and on behalf of the nureery workers.
We won't be intimidated!