I've just read that teaches and nurses are only being offered 2.8 percent pay rise.

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I can't get my head around why train drivers got such a good deal yet teachers and nurses yet again are being given such a small amount. Can anyone make any sense of it? Is it because teachers and nurses are often female whereas the train drivers seem to be mostly male? I imagine we'll now have strikes by teachers and nurses and who could blame them?

Pretty sure that all secondary teachers support FE colleagues in striking for better pay. Solidarity.

I remember around 2008 all of our company were invited to a company meeting. The managers were all on stage in their suits and they said no inflation pay rises due to the financial crisis. This was a private sector company supporting public sector work. Prior to that I had a pay rise every year just due to inflation.
those rises never got reinstated after the financial crisis and they started offering £200 a year rises to their stand out people (yes £200). Fast forward 15 years no wonder people struggled so much during the current crisis. Min wage in this country should be about 30k a year had it kept up with inflation.

i left that company a few years after the big meeting but know people still there and min wage has caught up with their “skilled” wages

Same. My teacher friends earn a lot more than me for similar management level roles.

My child has already been taught by a non qualified teacher who got the job after the class teacher left mid year.