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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

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Brilliant post Varjak -

And thank you for that link flipp -

I am broadly supportive. However, it's easy for me to say that, as I am currently a stay at home mum. Having also been a full-time worker with 2 young children, I know how inconvenient it is for working parents. I'm sure a day or two of strikes will not have a detrimental effect on children's education, but it can be very disruptive to working families. Employers aren't always sympathetic when you need to take time off to look after children.

You're welcome Solidarity.

I'm really angry that public sector workers/teachers are being attacked as greedy and lazy when MPs are busy lining their own pockets and hoping we don't pay too much attention.

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Non striking teacher (wrong union) signing in with full support of my colleagues

Vive la revolution!

I do understand that POV Mum2PandT. I'm a working single parent and wouldn't ask anyone to make a stand if I wasn't prepared to do so myself.

I was on strike today and I lost a days pay. However, I feel it is a sacrifice worth making. Not just for me but for my colleagues.

Solidarity!

wishing them all the best in getting a positive outcome worked out :-)

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thebest - I wasn't a pupil in the 80s, I was a teacher, and an NUT member. There was no strike action that didn't involve NUT members. And even with the occasional unofficial strike (happy days), the number of strike days didn't reach double figures for the whole decade.

My guess is that what you're remembering is the period in 1984 when teachers worked to rule - which meant they took a lunch hour and refused to double up and cover the classes of absent colleagues once the absence went into its fourth day.

And yes, so dire were teachers' working conditions in those days that such action did often partially close schools - classes closed because they had no teacher, and schools closed for the lunch hour because there were no teachers prepared to supervise.

And to the person who said their kids were losing a days education because of an inset day on Friday - no, they're not. Inset days were taken from school holidays - children have exactly the number of days holiday they've always had, just spread out a bit. Teachers, though,l ost those days from their holidays as part of the Tories' attacks on them in the 80s

I support them

Full support here.

luckylou.

I obviously don't remember the finer detail, being a child at the time but what you say does ring true because I recall it happening a lot at the time when the Miners were also striking.

Total support. Teachers, police, armed forces, fire service, civil servants and NHS do good and vital jobs for less pay. Who can deny them decent pensions after so many job losses and pay freezes?

We want our country back in the hands of Mumsnet, not Big Brother!

I was at school in the 80's. Luckylou is right, what you remember is teacher's working to rule, not striking.

I am a teacher, but don't work on Thursday's. I would most definitely have gone on strike though had it been on a day I work.

Full support for it

work at a school myself and I know that teachers often work up to 80 hours a week if you include homework marking etc and a lot have more than one degree under their belt, for which they have worked long and hard. Take money from the bigwigs who get loads of incentives and bonuses as well as a huge wage and leave the hard working public alone.

:) Lovely thread to read. A good day here with a very large and good natured rally.
Then, teacher bashers, I went home and did loads of work!

I've just cancelled my Sky TV subscription because I basically can't afford such luxuries and bought a freeview box instead.

I'm off to watch some free TV and enjoy that in some small way it reduces the profit of a private company so the shareholders will have to sack more employees to maintain their profits and the former employees will end up on benefits that the reducing number of taxpayer pays, but the public service isn't there to get them in jobs and keep the country running, let alone catch, supervise or convict the increasing number of criminals who rob other people to get money, commit arson and other crimes through dissatisfaction, or treat the victims in hospitals or educate their kids so they don't follow the same route.

See you at the finish line for the race to the bottom, everyone. You get the government you vote for, and what you deserve.

Grumpycat...thanks for your support. I'm not a teacher and am on strike, but every voice who supports, just as every person who doesn't or can't vote but abides by the decision who does strike, is a voice that says to the government "You're wrong" is a welcome vote in principle.

Ever consider moving to another union that represents your views more?

I didn't vote for the bastards! In fact nobody voted 'coalition', Cameron couldn't get a majority and these policies were not mentioned beforethe election.