Teachers on strike - do they usually name names?

[hester]

Just had a letter from dc's school, warning us of strike action at the end of the month and listing by name those teachers who will be on strike, and those who won't. They will close the classes of the striking teachers, and keep open the others.

Is this normal practice? I would have thought it would expose individual teachers to some irate parents? I also expected that they would treat it as a whole school issue, provide what cover they can, maybe suspend lessons and hav a games day in the hall. And if they couldn't do that, close the whole school?

dd Y3 school not on strike letter home today .Ds2 school only have list today of who is and who is not so they said they will let us know some may be of some not he is y9 .

No letter from ds3 school but when called them today and asked .His teacher is not striking

We have even been told the names of teachers who support the strike but will be overseas on strike day.

Well, some schools/teachers might not be striking this time, but the other unions are yet to vote, so I guess it'll come to us all at some point??

Can someone please tell me where this magic pot of money is going to come from? The only area in the economy that generates money is the private sector. I am very grateful to so many public services employees. I don't enjoy paying tax but I accept it. Is the answer that teachers are looking for to tax my business even more. I still don't understand where this extra money is going to come from. The more tax I pay the less money small I have to take on more staff. I think public servants need to share the pain. I would love to give my employees a final salary pension but I cannot write a blank cheque. What organisation can?

As a parent, I fully support all the striking teaching and other public sector workers out on strike on J30. Maybe repeating a question asked earlier but - what's the best way to show my support? I was thinking of keeping my DS off school (his teacher isn't striking) but I see a couple of teachers on here are advising against that. I'm quite prepared for an unauthorised absence mark for him for the day (it will be the only absence mark of any sort for the entire year) but is there anything else I can do? Will there even be picket lines to go and feed cake and tea to? :)

I to would support public sectors strikes, if someone could please explain where the money is coming from?

I don't know about picket lines or how best to support the teachers. I suppose telling them that they have your support would be a nice thing to do. That will make a huge difference to them, I think. I feel very uneasy about striking because of the reaction I will get from the parents.

jd - nice to see you :)

we haven't heard anything from dd's school yet. Will respect what they have to say.

Sadly, I am not working on Thursday. Parents like Strix make me want to strike anyway.

On my huge inflated salary, I spend a disproportionate amount of time "buying things to cheer up my classroom, cups for my class to drink from, endless coloured pens for marking, stickers to reward children, coloured print cartridges and a laminator and laminator pouches because most schools ban or severely restrict colour printing but still expect colourful displays and exciting lesson resources. Token Christmas and Easter gifts for the class, table of the week prizes, books to boost the pathetic bookshelf in the classroom." In our school we are not allowed to claim mileage for training or transporting other people's children to music days, sports fixtures, etc. I have just been out buying ingredients to make crepes with my class of 37 - a large number of whom come from families with a higher income than mine. I realise that I should remember my place and not put these parents to any inconvenience.

I am very cross now.

jollydiane
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubacc/833/83302.htm

"The government is being disingenuous when it claims that pension costs are unaffordable - the committee quite rightly points out that the government has failed to find out what is affordable. To move to make changes to the pension scheme for teachers when the case for change is unproven is reckless in the extreme. The government runs the risk of needlessly demoralising a whole profession without any evidence of a need for change."

Oh God, we had several parents today congratulating those members of staff not striking next week, as though this was due to some ethical principle on their part. Fortunately, they attempted to put them straight, explaining that it was only because they were not members of the relevant unions, otherwise they too would be absent from school. But the definite impression was good cop/bad cop!
Hey ho.

What is the strike about? Is it final salary pensions? (i.e. the type of schemes that non-public sector employees had closed on them 10 years ago, and then worse.. the risk of falling markets moved to the pensioner just before the markets collapsed taking the pension values with it??) If it is, then I think it will be a tough sale to convince private sector tax payers to fund final salary schemes that they cannot afford to buy for themselves...!

For anyone who is really interested, look here nasuwt

No one is asking private sector tax payers to fund teachers pensions they are paid for by teachers contributions sun1234.

I don't think so, MRZ.

Taken from :teacherspensions.co.uk/members/members1.htm

"As a member of the TPS, whether full-time or
part-time, you will pay 6.4% of your gross
salary towards a package of benefits. Your
employer pays a further 14.1%. This makes
a total of 20.5%. You will receive income tax
relief on your contributions."

I have a note listing which classes will not be taught. pretty obvious which teachers are striking. What other way is there to inform the parents?

Where do you think the 14% comes from, if not the tax payer?

sorry Strix where does that say private sector tax payers are funding teacher's pensions?

FAB, they could close the whole school withough mentioning names/classes. Our letter just says that most of the teachers have informed the head they are striking and therefore school is closed.

Erm teachers pay tax too, as do other public sector workers (in fact 53% of tax payers are public sector employees) or do you think we live tax free?

I don't know whether I should be striking or not. I'm sure I wasn't balloted. My union sent an email which said that if you weren't balloted you should report for work. But why wouldn't I be balloted?

Because that's where tax money comes from.