Comment: Green for go

Abstract

Despite the ATTI's affiliation to the TUC and the NUT's perceptible move in the same direction, the teachers' worst enemy during the next three months will be Mr George Woodcock. He is struggling to reconcile the trade unions with the government's wages policy and will not be helped in this by a decision to grant teachers a substantial rise — his members are still very bitter about the doctors' award. Teachers regard themselves as lower‐paid workers but this is not their image in the labour movement. The government, somewhat surprisingly, has given the green light to the Burnham Committee but Mr Crosland probably has troubled times ahead. If he can persuade the government to offer nothing more than a nominal increase he will wish that the thaw had been postponed because the teachers, as always, are in a quarrelsome mood. If a substantial offer can be made the situation will be of uncommon interest educationally as well as politically. For it is now clear that substantial sums of money, if available, should be used to make structural changes and not merely to give all‐round increases.

Citation

Arnold, B. (1967), "Comment: Green for go", Education + Training, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 220-220. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015825