NUT strike 5th July

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Are people striking?

Thread in Education has 21 posts. Maybe it should have been put in Chat for more traffic?

Sorry about that. I don't really venture outside the education parts of MN, so if someone else wants to re-post in Chat, that would be fine!

I am a parent and come from a union family. I had already told my husband that we would not cross a picket line on 5 July. 5 classes at our school are cancelled on Tuesday. My kids were in 3 of them. The plans for academisation are shocking and any teacher who does not stand against these changes will see there pay and conditions get worse. We are already see this in our school. The restrictions on children more stringent.

I had one parent say to me that they found politics boring and not worth it. Well, we can see where apathy get us. Please as a teacher stand up for your rights and for your children. I have been explaining it to other parents and have also thanked my children's teachers for standing up for what they think is right and that has given me an opportunity to teach my children about civic duty, values of right and wrong, voting and the list goes on.

Well, the NUT staff had a meeting last Monday and only 2 members (out of 10) had made the decision to strike.

Then, last week happened to be a particularly mad, stressful one as usual for this time of year. We are all struggling without TAs as our budget has been slashed in real terms. (A few TAs have left but haven't been replaced.) Think this highlighted exactly what we're striking about.

So....There has been lots of discussion but think we have all agreed that this job is steadily going down the toilet and therefore we must do our bit, even if the timing of the strike is unfortunate.

By the end of the week, all but 1 of our number are now striking.

I am much happier with my changed decision to strike than I was when I thought I wouldn't.

On weds the Chilcot report will be published, so the news is likely to be full of that, especially as word is the JC will use parliamentary privilege in PMQ to denounce TBliar as a war criminal, and push for him to be tried for war crimes, and then resign.
So unless it makes big news on Tues, no=-one will notice the strike.

Radio 5 are interviewing teachers on a local.picket line tomorrow morning.

6000 extra members since the strike was called - that's unprecedented, apparently.

That's fantastic!

I'm expecting chaos today. School is low on teachers anyway and about half are striking. I'm NASUWT so am going in. We're not closing - not even partially, so the kids will all be put in the hall to watch videos. Ridiculous.

Strike action top story on Radio 5 all morning, Nicky Morgan talking bollocks on right now.

Still no strike thread on chat. Isn't someone going to start one, drum up support/interest from parents?

I would, but I'm not on strike.

We're not closing - not even partially, so the kids will all be put in the hall to watch videos. Ridiculous

I didn't think schools were allowed to do that?!

We're partially closing. The head says there's a legal obligation to keep the school open for as many pupils as possible.

I have one twin DC in school today, one out. I do support the strike action.

I was in a school today covering a planned, non strike absence.
Several other agency supply teachers were in, don't know what they were covering.
School mostly open, just closed for y10s

Can't you see that this strike, supported by only 24% of NUT members, is part of the civil unrest package formulated by Jeremy Corbyn and his Momentum crew? Which large body supports him? The Trade Unions.

He's not interested in Parliament or the Referendum or the EU, and certainly not democracy; far more important work to be done by the unions to overthrow the status quo. No coincidence that the Junior Doctors have decided today not to accept the package offered - for the good of the NHS you understand, not their paypackets, and that Southern train drivers are on strike; binmen, bus drivers and grave diggers next, back to the heady days of the 1970s.

Meanwhile the elected government behave like ferrets in a sack.

The Trade Unions are not a 'large body', they are ordinary people doing the most important jobs and they deserve to have their voices heard. The strike is about finding for schools. Teachers don't stand to financially gain in an individual way, the issue is TAs being made redundant, class sizes rising, no money for building repairs or equipment in classrooms.

Bankers, politicians, media conglomerates... Those are large bodies trying to influence policy in their own financial interest.

Up to 10% of academy school budgets go to private companies now. I'm angry that I haven't got enough chairs and glue in my classroom and yet half a million a year of government money goes to the bloody academy sponsors.

How clever of Corbyn to force Gove and Morgan to destroy education in such a way that would piss off teachers and make them want to strike.

Exactly noblegiraffe

Went on strike and marched in support.

We can ONLY strike about pay and conditions, them's the rules.

I feel really strongly about the effect the white paper will have on education. Don't care about the children's future? That is the very reason we are striking.

On the BBC news website - yesterday's most popular read was that 'Mrs White' is killed off in Cluedo.
Today the news is all Chilcott/Wales v. Portugal
Don't see anything about the strike

It was right there in the 2nd row under the main headline. So probably the 3rd story when I checked yesterday afternoon. Radio 5 had it at the top.of the news all day plus an interview with Nicky Morgan lying her face off as usual. LBC talked about it all.day.

Guardian today had one para on p14

But a full page online still there today - who reads actual papers nowadays? That paragraph was written the day before!

My local paper had an article today - only parent they could find to comment complained that her DD had fallen out with her friends because she had the day off and they didn't.