Fucking do it. Nurses too get us all out at once. Nurses. Teachers. Dock workers. Railway workers. Posties. BT staff. Fuck it everyone else who wants to as well. One long deep picket line.
Do it. Then the kids will strike and I’ll be forced to support the schools giving the kids what they want. Substitute teachers to fill the gap. No different to train customer striking by not paying for their tickets.
They’re one step closer to the edge and they’re about to break!
Working with kids was something I really loved; teaching was something I hated. It’s not hard to see things are worse now than when I left in 2017. There is less money, fewer staff, parents are worse, demands are higher and kids are scarred by the pandemic. All that for far less pay than is deserved for your skill level, demonisation by the press and the public claiming you only do the job for the holidays. You cannot blame them for striking when they are prevented from doing their job at every turn.
Aren’t teachers well paid? Are they allowed to do this? Won’t parents be able to go to work? Won’t children’s education suffer? Is this fair to use children as bargaining chips?
I can see a general strike happening in the next year or so.
Be hard to tell when, they have most of the year off as it is
Entirely up to them, it’s their own time they’re wasting.
Queue the comments of ‘aren’t teachers well paid’ and ‘they get enough time off.’ If the jobs so great you fucking do it.
Look all I’m saying is if they go on strike, then I should be able to take my kids on a skiing trip during term times with paying penalty fees.
Teachers have the power. No one else can work if *their kids can’t go to school….
Go full ’79 and get the bin men (now called refuse collectors) and grave diggers out too.
Funny how many people clapped for key workers during covid. Yet now key workers are standing up for themselves they couldn’t give a monkeys. I feel sorry for them really having to go through life with no morals or spine.
Schools would fall apart without support staff and yet they are never mentioned. Support staff only get paid for term time unlike teachers, so an admin person (in my team three of the admin team are degree educated and highly skillled) who works holidays and is on call for any tech issues, comms, process enquries, website etc, will take home 18k pro rata which translates to about 14k a year.
I’m sure you all know that the union starting most of the strikes is the RMT. Bob Crowe was the leader of the RMT and also a close pal of Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA..
And cover supervisors. They’re fucked over for no money and pick up all the slack. My colleague takes home 1300/ month working 6 lessons a day and is treated like shit. Its really not worth her time. Then schools have to pay 200+ per day for agency staff when people like her/ teachers quit or go long term sick.
Except for history teachers, because there aren’t any.
If pension funds goes insolvent… They will lose their pensions too!!!
As a teacher a pay raise is a long time in coming. What some people don’t realise is that the offered pay raise would mean teachers pay would be down 26% on where we were a decade ago. Effectively meaning each teacher is working one week a month for free.. It can’t go on. Plus, the proposed pay offer would also have to be met from exsiting school budgets effectively stealing money from the ringed fence funding the schools need to function.
20 points to whoever said “Winter of discontent 2”.
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Fucking do it. Nurses too get us all out at once. Nurses. Teachers. Dock workers. Railway workers. Posties. BT staff. Fuck it everyone else who wants to as well. One long deep picket line.
Do it. Then the kids will strike and I’ll be forced to support the schools giving the kids what they want. Substitute teachers to fill the gap. No different to train customer striking by not paying for their tickets.
They’re one step closer to the edge and they’re about to break!
Working with kids was something I really loved; teaching was something I hated. It’s not hard to see things are worse now than when I left in 2017. There is less money, fewer staff, parents are worse, demands are higher and kids are scarred by the pandemic. All that for far less pay than is deserved for your skill level, demonisation by the press and the public claiming you only do the job for the holidays. You cannot blame them for striking when they are prevented from doing their job at every turn.
Aren’t teachers well paid? Are they allowed to do this? Won’t parents be able to go to work? Won’t children’s education suffer? Is this fair to use children as bargaining chips?
I can see a general strike happening in the next year or so.
Be hard to tell when, they have most of the year off as it is
Entirely up to them, it’s their own time they’re wasting.
Queue the comments of ‘aren’t teachers well paid’ and ‘they get enough time off.’ If the jobs so great you fucking do it.
Look all I’m saying is if they go on strike, then I should be able to take my kids on a skiing trip during term times with paying penalty fees.
Teachers have the power. No one else can work if *their kids can’t go to school….
Go full ’79 and get the bin men (now called refuse collectors) and grave diggers out too.
Funny how many people clapped for key workers during covid. Yet now key workers are standing up for themselves they couldn’t give a monkeys. I feel sorry for them really having to go through life with no morals or spine.
Schools would fall apart without support staff and yet they are never mentioned. Support staff only get paid for term time unlike teachers, so an admin person (in my team three of the admin team are degree educated and highly skillled) who works holidays and is on call for any tech issues, comms, process enquries, website etc, will take home 18k pro rata which translates to about 14k a year.
I’m sure you all know that the union starting most of the strikes is the RMT. Bob Crowe was the leader of the RMT and also a close pal of Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA..
And cover supervisors. They’re fucked over for no money and pick up all the slack. My colleague takes home 1300/ month working 6 lessons a day and is treated like shit. Its really not worth her time. Then schools have to pay 200+ per day for agency staff when people like her/ teachers quit or go long term sick.
Except for history teachers, because there aren’t any.
If pension funds goes insolvent… They will lose their pensions too!!!
As a teacher a pay raise is a long time in coming. What some people don’t realise is that the offered pay raise would mean teachers pay would be down 26% on where we were a decade ago. Effectively meaning each teacher is working one week a month for free.. It can’t go on. Plus, the proposed pay offer would also have to be met from exsiting school budgets effectively stealing money from the ringed fence funding the schools need to function.
20 points to whoever said “Winter of discontent 2”.
20 points to me.