TO the STUC in Perth where the appearance of David Bleiman of the Association of University Teachers (Scotland) as congress president brought back vivid memories to Educational Institute of Scotland delegates of the “membership wars” between the two unions.
Bill Speirs, STUC general secretary, had other reasons to remember. It was Bleiman’s erudite members who created those unforgettable campaign slogans forever cherished by a movement renowned for its pithy rhetoric - “Restore the upper quartile now” and “Rectify the anomaly”.
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