Setback at Harbinger
Schoolworkers at Harbinger Primary School in east London have suffered a major setback in their dispute over management bullying. The National Education Union's most senior unelected official, Assistant General Secretary Avis Gilmore, and the so-called NEU Action Committee withdrew union support for the Harbinger workers' strikes, hobbling the union group, on the eve of their long awaited grievance hearing. Just a few days before their planned strike on 6 June, Gilmore agreed to accept an offer from the headteacher's union behind the backs of school workers. The same offer had already been...