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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

I support them, in particular my son's amazing SN teacher who is striking not becuase of pensions but becuase she can't see how she will keep her charges safe at 66 and does not want to have them placed at risk through her need for a wage.

i am supportive. dp is a teacher but his union isn't striking but he is supportive of his colleagues who are

teaching has been so devalued

I'm supportive. I'm a TA and not unionised, but would be going in anyway as the teacher I work with isn't striking and I support a SN boy who would probably struggle if I wasn't there.

I love the way people go on about how much they earn, gold plated pensions, all those lovely holidays, but none of them offer to actually do the job! If it was that good, they'd be making plans for a career change. I think, in reality, most people realise it's a bloody thankless job these days. I think teachers deserve a blardy medal, let alone a decent pension (which they've been contractually promised by the way, so it's hardly like they're grabbing for stuff they're not entitled to.).

No way am I supporting this. MY DH will soon be having a 25% pay cut and will have to take it on the chin.

Sorry.

why post on this thread thebestisyettocome?

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I don't know usual suspect. Perhaps because it's a free country.

Then your dh should join a union shouldn't he.......... if he can.

He is a member of union type organisation.

My worry is that the Government will not give in and this will be the first of many strikes. Having grown up in a mining town and seen the damage done by a Union and Government who won't give an inch AND been the victim of endless weeks, months of teachers striking in the eighties, I do not believe this action is sensible.

Sorry. I wish you well in your campaign but I strongly disagree with your tactics.

Ok - I could talk all night about unions and politics ( yes I really am that boring ) but this is a thread simply to register support, and not just for teachers but all workers taking industrial action tomorrow.

If we all had a 'what's the point' attitude we'd achieve nothing.

( I'm not a teacher btw )

Total support from me too.

I'm not saying 'what's the point' though...

I am also in a similar area The Best (SE Wales) and had the 1980's strikes but I think it is really essential to use your voice where you can.

Heck, as a nursing student in the 1990's we actually ahd lectures about our right to decent employment standards (into which i would include a right to protest about changes to contracts) and not letting the concept of a vocation get in the way.

I am very much in favour of using your voice to make a good point. And for the record, I support the substantive point.

I don't support the strike however as I think it (a) gives the Government the moral highground (b) unduly affects children and their parents (c) should only be used as the very, very last resort as there is nowhere left to go after resorting to it.

I wonder whether people who support the teachers now will still support them in six months time after much more striking. As I said earlier, as with the miners, the Tories will not back down. The Unions have led their members into a cul-de-sac from whence there is no return imho. I hope I am wrong.

Youngest's school isn't closed but I'm on strike myself. Day off

So thebestisyettocome has done exactly what was not wanted and hijacked this thread when there are plenty of others she could have posted on to voice her disagreement. Boo to her! But yay to the striking teachers!

I'm sorry jonas. I don't mean to hijack as I could've started my own thread. As I've said I'm supportive of the aims, just worry they've started something they can't finish.

Feel free to ignore all my posts and carry on but I still maintain my position

But how else do you register your strong disapproval at such a huge change to your pension? I do understand what you say about having witnessed the NUM vs Thatcher years and the ultimate futility of it, but can't think of what power the teachers have other than striking?

The miners strike was completely different for all sorts of reasons - if you want to start a separate thread I'll happily chat to you about it -

This thread is to support the teachers - not to talk about the miners/ Thatcher/Arthur Scargill.

Cheers.

Please can we have the s again. There's so many other threads to hash out the politics.

Solidarity. You are are not the only person who knows about unions and politics so there is no reason at all for the patronising post.

Cheers.