I’ve got mixed views. Support that they, as all public sector workers, need a pay rise. And schools need more funding (but the NEU hasn’t badged this as a public reason which is a mistake IMP).
But 12% is a lot when you’re on a £40k salary. The TA’s deserve 12%, the nurses and ambulance drivers with dire conditions and worse salaries deserve 12%. But not from a starting salary of £40k.
Also public services can be dire. I work in one, it can be bordering on a joke and in so many ways such a waste of money. I will be striking on the 1st of February. But I don’t think it’s right - I voted against the strike. I want a pay rise, but don’t feel like it’s right to ask for 10% and strike if I don’t get it.
AIBU?
Does anyone NOT support teachers’ strikes?
Notbeinggoadybut · 25/01/2023 20:13
Am I being unreasonable?
757 votes. Final results.
POLLNotbeinggoadybut · 25/01/2023 20:24
I never said starting salary. Unless you enter at a senior level, I can’t think of any public sector jobs that start at £40k!
Notbeinggoadybut · 25/01/2023 20:26
The funding point - I think schools do need more funding. But that’s not what this is publicly about, is it. How will funding be increased by teachers receiving a 12% rise?
I do have DC in school. My DC’s class is the only class in school closed for the duration of the strikes.
ComtesseDeSpair · 25/01/2023 20:20
I think that many (most?) public servants deserve a pay rise. But I also think that many (most?) public servants are disingenuous about their pay package. Pension entitlement (and therefore the link between pay rises and employer pension contributions and final pay out) is a big factor for many people in the public sector, which isn’t often brought into the argument.
I’d be in favour of withdrawing current public sector pension entitlements for new entrants, making them more in line with the private sector average and thus affording higher actual pay rises across the board whilst making pay rises both more transparent and more affordable because they don’t have to bake in long term actuarial calculations about defined benefit pension entitlements
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mistermagpie · 25/01/2023 20:26
I work in the public sector and we have had nowhere near the pay rise that teachers are asking for. I support their right to strike, in principle, but I don't think their work is more important that other public sector workers who have had much lower pay rises.
I'm also a bit sick of the fact that teachers are such martyrs about it all (especially on here) - yes it's probably a hard job and I sure as shit don't want to do it, but nobody is actually making them do it if they don't want to.
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