Unions threaten strikes!

[beckett12]

Will this actually happen like it did at the start of January?
My children's school closed before lockdown was announced due to union walk outs are we likely to see this again because there is no phased re opening?
Can't cope with all the drama of everything we need to just crack on!

No chance - pure hot air.

Where is your source for this? Teachers and staff didn't strike in January, they used section 44 which is a section of safety from the ERA.

Just seen it on the daily mail ... sorry that's what I ment wrong choice of word!

Not one teacher at the school I worked in handed in a section 44.
Don’t panic.

Not going to happen.

90% my colleagues will be dancing through the gates come 8th March. We have had enough and just want to do our jobs in person.

I am lucky that my school had the money to pay for additional mitigations such as full time cleaners, all teaching rooms have windows that now open and the site is such that we can all be in separate parts of the building without coming into contact with anyone outside of our bubble. We can all also walk around the outside of the building in order to get into our bubbles which isn't possible in all schools.

I appreciate not all schools have the same though and am frustrated that the government hasn't made funding available for the same to happen in all schools.

Don't believe a word you read from the Daily Mail!!

Also @beckett12 no schools took strike action in January.

Some exercised S44 in cases where it was deemed unsafe for them to teach full classes. Interestingly, we went into lockdown soon after that so on reflection, they were correct to do so.

My school was not one of those as the mitigations we had in place were sufficient to make us feel safe to teach.

Well there's your mistake... using your source data from Daily Mail! I don't know one teacher who doesn't want to get back to the classroom.. DH is a teacher, several family members are teachers and I have a lot of teacher friends!

Daily Mail HATES teachers and is always spouting absolute bollox.

Don’t use the DM as your source of proper news.

The Daily Mail hates unions and lie about them quite regularly.

I doubt many teachers will be using Section 44 at this point - the case rate is so much lower now. It would be down to individual scenarios where a teacher felt they were putting themselves at risk by going to work.

I'm in the NEU and i've had no communication from them about today's announcement, and they were very vocal in January.

@SeldomFollowedIt

Not one teacher at the school I worked in handed in a section 44. Don’t panic.

Same. Our school went back on 4th Jan, no issues... obviously it closed again that night...