Teachers moot rolling strikes

Press, 4 March 1978, Page 11

Teachers moot rolling strikes

PA Auckland I The Auckland region of [ the Post-Primary' Teachers’ Association wants its national executive to organise rolling strikes throughout New Zealand so that each school goes on strike for one day every week. At a meeting it said the strikes should continue until there was a reasonable response to the teachers’ salary claim. It was unanimously resolved to go to the Combined State Service Organ- : isations for support if the ’Government refused to negotiate. The national executive would be asked to declare all public examinations “black.” An overwhelming majority supported a motion to ban all student teachers from classrooms or section until teachers were paid for looking after them, as happened in primary schools and kindergartens. The meeting also declared its lack of confidence in the Minister of

'Education (Mr Gandar) and' the chairman of the Education Services Committee (Mr P. K. Munn). The proposal to declare public examinations black was first discussed in Christchurch at a teachers’ conference on the day of the second a r y-school teachers’ strike. Mr N. M. Cook, regional chairman of the Canterbury P.P.T.A., said that the recommendations from the conference were in the hands of Canterbury branches and were still being discussed. The results of the recommendations would be known after resolutions had been passed at the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association’s annual general meeting on March 9. Mr Cook said that the P.P.T.A. had about 20 suggestions, some of those different from Auckland’s P.P.T.A. He said the degree of support for the various recommendations would then be available.