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Sooo, is your child's school striking on the 30th November?

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Appuskidu · 14/11/2011 20:25

Have they told you yet if the school will be closed? My DD's school shut for the most part last time, but I can't remember when they let us know!

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CardyMow · 14/11/2011 23:59

Nope, no free one (live 0.1 of a mile too close to the school as the crow flies). I spent the first 3 years here trying to fight the LEA on this. I've been here for 7 years, and have long since given up on that fight. Even my MP couldn't get me one.

The £10 a day covers - £4 all day ticket for me, and a £1.50 single ticket each way for DS1 and the same for DS2. (£3 a day each) So a single bus pass wouldn't be sufficient. I have to get single tickets for the dc because you are not allowed to buy a children's all-day ticket here before 9.30am. The bus companies here just LOVE to fleece the parents, and we have to pay something like 2/3 full fare for all dc over 5yo.

CardyMow · 15/11/2011 00:01

abbierhodes - I know, but at least at my DS's primary, you can tell which teachers didn't belong to the Unions that went on strike last time IYSWIM. All the teachers that had been teaching for 10 years+ were on strike. The newer, more idealistic teachers seemed to belong to a Union that didn't strike - hence my predictions for the teachers that DS1 and DS2 have got. . I'll come back to tell you if I was right or not!

MrsMojoRisin · 15/11/2011 00:07

They've sent us a letter to tell us they may be on strike on the 30th (depending on outcomes of ballots etc). This gives people enough chance to arrange childcare if they need it.

DH and I both work in the public sector and our workplaces likely to be on strike too, if it goes ahead.

Feenie · 15/11/2011 07:02

But last time the biggest union weren't on strike, and neither were the headteachers, or teaching assistants. This time the nasuwt may well vote to strike, and the NAHT and unison already have. So that's added to the nut and atl last time - very different story.

roisin · 15/11/2011 07:24

Are GMB striking, or balloting to strike?

JessieLeGrund · 15/11/2011 07:35

If it's an issue (pensions) that teachers feel so passionate about, why have so few bothered to vote?

livinonaprayer · 15/11/2011 07:38

roisin I believe gmb will be balloting if they haven't already, this was mentioned at my last governors meeting.
My dc school was partially closed last time and I had a similar situation to others where one dc had to go to school and one didn't! The strike date is definitely 30th nov so I am making plans just in case iyswim.

DownbytheRiverside · 15/11/2011 07:38

You could ask the same question every time the nation goes to the ballot boxes, especially the under 30s.
Could be any number of reasons from apathy to indifference because it doesn't affect an individual directly to despair that voting and striking will make a difference.

mrz · 15/11/2011 07:45

HuntyCat I think your conclusion may only apply to your school. In my school the oldest most experienced teachers are in VOICE (non striking policy) and the least experienced are in the NUT

clam · 15/11/2011 08:57

huntycat if you're proved "right" it will be pure fluke. The only reason your school's "younger, more idealistic" teachers weren't on strike last time is because the nasuwt weren't involved that time. They are this time.
We had a couple of parents last time thanking one of our teachers for coming in to teach as if she was doing it for them. She had to tell them it was only because her union was not out, not for any altruistic reason on her part.

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LondonMumsie · 15/11/2011 19:35

Hope not, DD has a school trip that day!

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Appuskidu · 15/11/2011 19:47

Which LEA is that Waswondering?

I expect that is caretakers are striking, there's nobody to open up!

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Appuskidu · 15/11/2011 19:49

if.., not is

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hockeyforjockeys · 15/11/2011 19:54

In our school the older teachers are NASWUT, while the younger ones tend to be NUT who went out on strike last time. I'm only 28 but went out on strike last time, because although I accept that I won't be getting the same package as those retiring now, I seriously worry that in 40 years time when I do that successive governments will have eroded teachers' pensions to virtually nil.

MigratingCoconuts · 15/11/2011 20:12

If it's an issue (pensions) that teachers feel so passionate about, why have so few bothered to vote?

Jessie...sorry I may have missed the post that said just how many people turn out to vote. However, in this case, the ballot will not close until the 17th for NASUWT members. This is the deadline that the union set and it may well be that everyone has already voted...however they won't be actually counted until 18th.

The the choice of words 'bothered', its worth saying that this is a very hard decision for me to take. In twenty years I have never been asked to vote to strike and its not a ballot that I answer lightly at all.

HarrietJones · 15/11/2011 20:13

GMB are balloting roisin is that who you are?

We are all looking to swap from unison who have been crap but GMB members don't seem any more positive about them!

roisin · 16/11/2011 02:01

No, I'm with ATL Harriet.

Youremindmeofthebabe · 16/11/2011 16:52

So I should ask after the 18th then, if they haven't told me by then?

MigratingCoconuts · 16/11/2011 18:02

yes. I should imagine we'll know the results of the ballot on the weekend and them schools will start finding out from the unions how many will be on strike into next week.

seb1 · 16/11/2011 18:06

No, but it is closed for a holiday.

ByTheWay1 · 16/11/2011 19:01

Last time ours told parents the day before that the school was closed - I then found out that as a dinner lady I was expected to still turn up - but not allowed to plant my kids (who attend the school I work at) in the corner - so as the lowest paid member of staff at the school, I had to take a day off - unpaid. Noooooo - I was not a happy bunny - the same will probably happen again.

Those who turned up (those without school aged kids) watched the same safety video we have watched every year as a "refresher" - I guess it will be lined up once more.

It is , unfortunately, stuff like that which ultimately wears away my sympathy for any cause...

LindyHemming · 16/11/2011 19:25

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mollschambers · 17/11/2011 16:19

Hope so. Although also hoping that the other school i work in is shut too or that may be problematic...

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