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[Solidarity]

I know there are threads flying about all over the place re; the strike, but this is purely to register support - it would be great if we could keep it going until midnight on Thursday ( 30th June )

you don't have to say anything - just smile, like this

My full support, my DS's are home due to the strike and I am loving having an unexpected day with them.

sick sick sick of the public-sector bashing ( about that). The pensions ARE affordable, as proved by the Hutton Report, the Tories just don't want public sector workers to have them.

Right behind them

they have my support and I may be joining them if my union ballots and members agree (not a teacher but a public sector worker). I am disgusted with Ed Miliband's stance. He could have stayed sitting on the fence if he was so scared of supporting those striking today.

They have my support all the way, if I'd had to take the day off work I would have taken my children to join in the march. :)

Completely have my support. Even it has meant an extra day of sibling squabbling and parental servitude.

Signing in. If we value teachers, we'll pay them and treat them properly.

Same goes for nurses, who to my mind are paid appallingly for highly stressful work.

and a big thumbs up !

I support the teachers' action today - it's about time the public sector stood up and put the record straight. The pensions are not 'gold plated' and there are preposterous estimates flying around about how much their pensions could be worth. If the MPs want to reduce the cost of pensions perhaps they should start by looking closer to home by reviewing their own!

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Yes Yes Yes all the way!

Full support from me. Teachers do a fantastic job and should be rewarded for it in retirement

Congratulations on a successful day of action. So, Michael Gove - Ha! Ha! and what was the other thing? Oh yes - Ha!

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Sorry, just to correct what I posted earlier: the BMA have voted by 87% in favor for a ballot on industrial action. They have not yet voted for industrial action itself, though that is now a 'very real possibility' according to the Guardian, and hasn't happened since 1975.

All those striking today - not just the teachers - have my support. 100% :)

Can we have a thread instead called 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffee'

I support the teachers - 100%.

DS made the point that no one seemed remotely concerned when the schools closed because of a few inches of snow, so why was Gove claiming one day off because of strike action was jeopardising his education? Good lad!

Definately got my support. There has been too much rubbish and mis-information about public sector workers earning these amazing wages and getting gold plated pensions. It just isn't true. As in any organisation it is the people at the top who do well. Teachers have a lot to deal with on top of trying to teach like horrendous amounts of paperwork, difficult parents and abusive or disinterested pupils etc. So yes I totally support them and I know that I could not do that job.

Here too

:) for the teachers ... and the rest (PCS member here).

I have been paying into a pension since I started working and I have a pension pot that will give me a pension of £1545. I am pretty jealous of the teachers. I will have no option but to work until I drop, at B and Q, if they are still around.

:) supporting the strike all the way