It’s the next logical step after radio silence from the government.
>In March, the government offered teachers a £1,000 one-off payment alongside an average 4.5% pay rise next year after talks. But members of the four unions rejected the pay offer by substantial margins.
It’s worth pointing out that this 4.5% rise wasn’t government funded which meant it would be coming out of existing school budgets which are already notoriously tight. In most cases that would lead to support staff most likely being cut to afford the rises. Teaching Assistants are already drastically underpaid for what they do and many are already leaving to go work in Asda and Aldi where they get a better wage and are treated with more respect.
Bring it on, best of luck to the teachers.
Ah yes, stick it to the Tories by failing to educate working class children.
Genius plan.
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You mean it’s like a general pattern… of strikes?
I hope this catches on. Solidarity to the teachers!
I fully support the teachers and all workers withdrawing their labour where necessary to demonstrate their importance.
With inflation not slowing down like the BoE predicted, we are in for much more discontent across society unless wages at least keep up with inflation.
If public and private employers try to continue making workers poorer then I can see a general strike coming, the kind we haven’t seen in a century…
I used to teach and it is just not a sustainable career for many. Too much is expected in too little time, with too little help, too little in the way of resources, and with too little reward for your effort. You want good teachers who spend decades in the field? Pay them a proper wage, let them teach with a sense of autonomy, and give them the tools they require. Teaching is hard and it is only harder when you are expected to spend hours on pointless bureaucracy and blamed for all of society’s ills when it comes to kids.
Finally, the individual unions appear to be realising the only way for them to be heard would be actually unionising. Who’d of thunk it?
A big congratulations to having to do the same amount of work in less time.
A massive congratulations on leaving your more disadvantaged students at even more of a disadvantage.
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This government are a joke. If they didn’t let corpos run away with record profits, this would not be happening.
Coordinated government lack of care.
“i stress, i dont believe economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.” – Boris Johnson
This is the long-term impact of having an Education Secretary who thinks we should listen to Trump instead of experts. Though we’ve been rushing through education secretaries at quite a pace, one lasted for 36 hours!
Given the country wide strikes do you wonder if these people are ever going to realise that there’s just no goddman money
Good. Ideally I would like to see a general strike to remove this incompetent and corrupt government.
I don’t understand why people are in favour of public schools shutting down. The only thing worse than an underpaid teacher is no teacher.
But hey, let’s let the richest of people still get an education!
Best of luck to them but I don’t know if that is going to be enough.
General strike plz?
A General Strike is coming and if we are lucky it will be the end of these corrupt, inept, racist, flag shaggers.
I don’t think people realise quite how unprecedented this is. The main teaching and leadership unions almost never sit down and unite around a goal, let alone work together to coordinate combined action.
If this pays off and NAS, NAHT, and ASCL are able to secure a mandate alongside the NEU, it’ll be a historic moment for the teaching unions. If that doesn’t show just how bad the date of our education system is, then I don’t know what will.
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Just pay them.
It’s the next logical step after radio silence from the government.
>In March, the government offered teachers a £1,000 one-off payment alongside an average 4.5% pay rise next year after talks. But members of the four unions rejected the pay offer by substantial margins.
It’s worth pointing out that this 4.5% rise wasn’t government funded which meant it would be coming out of existing school budgets which are already notoriously tight. In most cases that would lead to support staff most likely being cut to afford the rises. Teaching Assistants are already drastically underpaid for what they do and many are already leaving to go work in Asda and Aldi where they get a better wage and are treated with more respect.
Bring it on, best of luck to the teachers.
Ah yes, stick it to the Tories by failing to educate working class children.
Genius plan.
[deleted]
You mean it’s like a general pattern… of strikes?
I hope this catches on. Solidarity to the teachers!
I fully support the teachers and all workers withdrawing their labour where necessary to demonstrate their importance.
With inflation not slowing down like the BoE predicted, we are in for much more discontent across society unless wages at least keep up with inflation.
If public and private employers try to continue making workers poorer then I can see a general strike coming, the kind we haven’t seen in a century…
I used to teach and it is just not a sustainable career for many. Too much is expected in too little time, with too little help, too little in the way of resources, and with too little reward for your effort. You want good teachers who spend decades in the field? Pay them a proper wage, let them teach with a sense of autonomy, and give them the tools they require. Teaching is hard and it is only harder when you are expected to spend hours on pointless bureaucracy and blamed for all of society’s ills when it comes to kids.
Finally, the individual unions appear to be realising the only way for them to be heard would be actually unionising. Who’d of thunk it?
A big congratulations to having to do the same amount of work in less time.
A massive congratulations on leaving your more disadvantaged students at even more of a disadvantage.
[removed]
This government are a joke. If they didn’t let corpos run away with record profits, this would not be happening.
Coordinated government lack of care.
“i stress, i dont believe economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.” – Boris Johnson
This is the long-term impact of having an Education Secretary who thinks we should listen to Trump instead of experts. Though we’ve been rushing through education secretaries at quite a pace, one lasted for 36 hours!
Given the country wide strikes do you wonder if these people are ever going to realise that there’s just no goddman money
Good. Ideally I would like to see a general strike to remove this incompetent and corrupt government.
I don’t understand why people are in favour of public schools shutting down. The only thing worse than an underpaid teacher is no teacher.
But hey, let’s let the richest of people still get an education!
Best of luck to them but I don’t know if that is going to be enough.
General strike plz?
A General Strike is coming and if we are lucky it will be the end of these corrupt, inept, racist, flag shaggers.
I don’t think people realise quite how unprecedented this is. The main teaching and leadership unions almost never sit down and unite around a goal, let alone work together to coordinate combined action.
If this pays off and NAS, NAHT, and ASCL are able to secure a mandate alongside the NEU, it’ll be a historic moment for the teaching unions. If that doesn’t show just how bad the date of our education system is, then I don’t know what will.