to say this to all the teachers who are striking next week

[Memoo]

As a parent I am 100 % behind you.

I really appreciate that you put your life and soul into your job and im sorry more people don't get just how hard you work for the benefit of our children.

Don't let the bastards grind you down!

OP am not a teacher but a lecturer but will (complacently) say thanks.

The thing is, teachers et al. are not just striking for themselves, but actually on behalf of future generations. Secondary school pupils will find themselves on the job market in no time at all, coerced into accepting substandard working conditions and crap pensions and all the rest of it. Children can't vote or strike, so the rest of us have to.

I can't find any childcare and will lose a days pay.

I will be extremely dissapointed in any public servents who do not strike.

I hope to see more of this action if your voices go unheard.

I completely agree with you (and am not a teacher). I also support the nurses at the GPs even though it means my thyroid blood test gets put back a week :(

Go memoo!

And on that note, any person who criticises striking workers just because they have been personally inconvenienced is a selfish a-hole.

yes, and thousands of people who work the public sector will lose millions if they dont make a stand.

Hat off to you all!

Well said memoo - they have my support too.

I find it hard to sympathise when I have bills to pay. Sorry, I understand their reasons for striking but it wont make a blind bit of difference anyway

I can't get childcare and everyone else in my office will be on strike ( I ca't afford to) but I can't get authorised leave as no one else will be here to do the work !! That siad I do appreciate why people are striking, the whole misrepresentation the mdeia are peddaling about these perfect public sector pensions is beyond belief.
Just wish my boys school would confirm one way or other about the strike.

Thank you very much.

I am behind the strike as well.

Im a nurse.

My kids school is off.

I support you all 100%

Absolutely fully support anyone who is striking against being shafted left, right, and centre by this (any any Govt)

Co-signed. DH can't actually strike (boarding school) but he and colleagues and union reps have voted to support the strikers, wear yellow (ATL colours) and the headmaster is writing to all parents about the justification for the strike.

Right that's it. I've had it. Why should people getting a much better deal than the rest of us pension-wise strike BEFORE the negotiations are finished. It's appalling. And I know I'm not alone in feeling like this, but most people would be too scared to say it as the more militant Mners just become incoherent and slag off the Tories. Please can I have reasoned debate. If the strike happens before negs are finished, that should be it, forget it! all bets off.

I also support the nurses and GPs. I hae a medical appointment next Wednesday that has my been put back to December but I fully support what they are doing.

Laughing at the idea of me being militant!

Am with you OP.

I'm police support staff and I am 100% behind you all. Like someone else, the "gold plated public sector pensions" fallacy has me frothing at the mouth like an express reader. Good luck for your strike.

I also support the strike! My DS was a little offended though: "Why are my teachers doing this? I thought they liked children". I had to explain to him that they are not striking due to being fed up with the children :-)

Oh Please, get a grip on reality !

Teachers are striking about their remuneration package and what the changes will mean to them financially.

They are not unique saints, they are people doing a job that involves a great deal of contact with possibly cute children or possibly vile children. They are not nuns or monks who have dedicated their life to some cause other than themselves.

Unless any of us tries out someone else's job for a considerable period of time we won't appreciate/fully understand the highs and lows thereof.

Newsflash ! Teachers are not a "special case" any more than dentists, dentists receptionists, bin men, local authority housing managers and so on and so on.

Teaching is a career. The vast majority of employees in the private sector (also in career type jobs) have had their pension returns radically altered (aka reduced and pension ages extended) by a) the government and b) the economy. I fail to grasp the magic bit of information that would help me understand why public sector employees are to be protected from the same financial fate that has befallen the rest of us through no fault of our own.

YABU, striking achieves nothing. If you don't like your job change it. I know that sounds facetious but really I just don't get the concept of stikes.

There is no money anyway.

You aren't striking 'for the future', it's the future generations that'll be paying!!