FMTTM Solidarity thread

Speak for yourself. The public sector has better pay, better hours, better pension, better job security than the private sector. When the private sector workers lost their jobs or a significant chunk of pay over Covid, the public sector were protected. It's time to get the country moving again, and bad actors that would rather see the country fall to ruin to further line their pockets have no place in it (and yes, I include the Tories in that and not just the strikers).
You've never worked in public sector have you - just read the Daily Mail and turned gammon pink with rage.
 
Speak for yourself. The public sector has better pay, better hours, better pension, better job security than the private sector. When the private sector workers lost their jobs or a significant chunk of pay over Covid, the public sector were protected. It's time to get the country moving again, and bad actors that would rather see the country fall to ruin to further line their pockets have no place in it (and yes, I include the Tories in that and not just the strikers).
And he's back 👋
 
Is that hours contracted or hours required to do the job?
So is the strike about contracted hours or pay?

A solution to the problem could be to up the paid hours on their contract? Maybes work two extra hours a day, one hour earlier in the morning and one hour later at night, paid for obviously and then that could help with giving teachers back their Sunday nights or Saturday mornings making life/work balance better?

I fear upping the pay but still keeping the same working hours only pushes the issue down the road. They'll still be working at home on lesson planning etc on weekends as why would they stay at school to do this work without been paid for it?
 
Speak for yourself. The public sector has better pay, better hours, better pension, better job security than the private sector. When the private sector workers lost their jobs or a significant chunk of pay over Covid, the public sector were protected. It's time to get the country moving again, and bad actors that would rather see the country fall to ruin to further line their pockets have no place in it (and yes, I include the Tories in that and not just the strikers).
Them people want your pie.
 
They need paying for the work they do. Or we need double the teachers, the system and workload is not sustainable.
Agreed. We all do. It was simply just an idea. Another one would be to scrap tests and exams at primary school level. The whole curriculum also needs a drastic shake up to drag the future generations of this country into the present day. This could also help with the workload issues. Far too much bureaucracy.
 
I used to be like most people, take the **** out of teachers. They get 6 weeks off, finish at 3 blah blah blah. Then I married one, the work they do and what they put up with is crazy, I wouldn't do it for any amount of money. Gets to work at 7.30, home for 6 most days and carrys on working at home plus near enough every weekend. Now buys most equipment needed for lessons out of her own pocket. Nevermind the abuse they get from kids these days. Most people don't realise the pay rises are not fully funded and come out of already stretched school budgets, that is what they are fighting for. Less money for kids and redundancies for much needed support staff. I was at Durham Market place today supporting them at their rally and I will be on the next strike day ️



This is what the government want, working class fighting each other. We all need to stick together.
 
Divide and rule, sadly enabled by working class tories
Yep your right sadly

I’ve yet to meet a single Tory voter yet they keep getting in so someone must be voting for them.

Beware the concept of the shy Tory because it’s a very real thing.
 
People should not have to bring work home nor work unpaid hours but the ones i know do so on a regular basis. Solidly behind the strikers.
"When 'I' is replaced with 'We' even the illness becomes wellness." MalcolmX
Only together can people make a difference.
 
One of my exes was a teacher and the idea that they have it easy is just ridiculous. You don't just get to sit on your @rse and relax for six weeks over the summer. She was always bringing work home, marking late into the evening and making lesson plans, and the curriculum kept changing every five minutes so she'd spend the summer trying to plan how she was going to teach in the next academic year. That was twenty years ago. I expect that it's even worse for them now. I'm fully behind them.
 
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It’s shocking at the chalk face. It really is. I’ve been in the profession for nearly 21 years and in and amongst it for 25. I’m paid ok but rises have been poor for a long while. The workload has increased a great deal. Behaviour of the children is the worst I have ever know it. We get 5.6 weeks paid leave per year, the same as most others. Yes, we get 13 weeks off but I know that I work several of those and my god, I need the time away from the class! Any rises we have had, have come out of school budgets that are already set and that means that money is tighter for schools. The impact? Less staff, fewer resources, worse behaviour, more pressure. Ofsted are a whole other barrel of shyte that I won’t go into now.

I was on the fence so didn’t strike. By God, I’m striking next time. This government don’t give a shiny one about the average Joe.
 
Speak for yourself. The public sector has better pay, better hours, better pension, better job security than the private sector. When the private sector workers lost their jobs or a significant chunk of pay over Covid, the public sector were protected. It's time to get the country moving again, and bad actors that would rather see the country fall to ruin to further line their pockets have no place in it (and yes, I include the Tories in that and not just the strikers).
The public sector were protected in the most part because they carry out essential work.
 
I've been striking since last June (Rail) and to be honest we need to start doing something differently now to make a point.

As they've shown with the rail strikes, the Tories are happy to let things continue and waste tax payers money to cover the private firms losses.

A couple of strike days here and there won't change anything and public sector workers can't keep losing money, its not sustainable.

In my opinion the only solution is to have mass demonstrations in the streets and that needs everyone who supports this to come out and support it. A few thousand union members in the streets isn't enough, it needs a couple of million protesting through London to make a point.

If this isn't brought to a head soon it'll fizzle out and I think the public sector needs help from the rest of the general public. I said a couple of days ago, its easy to sit on the sidelines watching and thinking this won't affect you, this is about the rights of workers being attacked and it will be you next.
 
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