AIBU to be faintly worried about teachers striking?

[KrabbyPatties]

I need my kids to go back

But

I just have a feeling they’ll do something

At the very last minute.

3 teachers in our family. There are no plans or even discussions about striking.

What is 'do something' precisely and for what reason?

Nobody is talking about this.

I’m a teacher in the biggest union in the uk-not even a sniff of a strike. Though I am going to piss of the d f e as I will be wearing a mask.

Teachers aren't going to strike in September 🙄

Strikes take time to organise and are only conducted after a ballot.

Same here, I be furious if the kids don't go back.

I won't!

Why would they strike?

I don’t know

I just feel really uneasy

Partly because the lack of PPE and consideration they get
Partly because nothing would surprise me about the Tory promises

Partly because.... it’s 2020 and I am too desperate for things to go back to normal

Call it lockdown anxiety

Pleased to see that I am completely unreasonable here

Unions are entitled to organise strikes whenever appropriate. It's a right the many people have fought and died for which guaranteed (or should have) a reasonable work week, appropriate safety and a minimum wage. Strikes and unionisation are vital.

As it happens, I'm in a teaching union (not the largest one) and there isn't any thought of a strike at all. However, if there is a good case for one then anyone who respects worker's rights should be in support.

Partly because nothing would surprise me about the Tory promises

What’s that got to do with teachers striking or not?

What will they go on strike to achieve?!

I think they will swiftly lose any sympathy if they did go on strike.

I think they will swiftly lose any sympathy if they did go on strike.

Not sure we have any sympathy left to lose.

I'm a teacher.

No plans to strike, my union isn't planning to strike, none of my colleagues have mentioned the word.

Don't believe anything that the DM says about the teaching profession.

I'm a union rep and have seen no talk of striking whatsoever. In my school we're worried but I th3 there'd be no appetite for a strike even if the union did ballot for one. We want to be back, we want to be safe and for children to be safe and we know that aside from anything else a strike would lose any support we do still have from the public.

I wouldn’t worry too much I’ve just seen our college’s plan and it’s comprehensive to say the least! Schools and colleges have spent the last few months planning to cover every eventuality.

A quick straw poll of 3 teachers shows they are in 3 different unions and none have heard of any strike plans.

I think schools will go back but the government may close them within a month. Advice from government today (on TES website) to teachers was to make sure good remote learning packages are in place just incase. I think it's a very big "just incase"
I want schools to open but suspect if the number of Covid cases go up consistently over the next few weeks, that the reopening will be short-lived

All teachers are expecting to be back in schools full-time. No-one I know is planning anything differently at all. It’s all just press hype pandering to the unions who are not accurately representing the views of the majority of their members.

it's all press hype pandering to the Tories and allowing them to spin the lie that unions are preventing opening and creating division, diverting from their own incompetence

There fixed that for you, Trinity.

There are absolutely no plans for teachers to strike.

We all want staff and pupils back in school, the only issue we have is how that can be achieved safely.

This then presents a school by school issue that would not be resolved with a national strike.

Despite the media claims that the unions are intent on blocking schools from opening, the unions have actually taken no action in that direction. Literally zero talk of strike action let alone a ballot.

The media are being directed by the government to plant this narrative so that when it all goes to shit, the government can blame the unions for ‘blocking plans’ instead of the government admitting they haven’t got any to block.

That's great news

Then we don't need to worry about masks in schools either.

I can't imagine BoJo would want to lose face unless he's forced to. Yet again!