Should teachers be banned from striking?

I know that NQTs are still learning, but that doesn't excuse their effective hourly rate being what it is (if not less). And with performance related pay, that progression is not guaranteed (and academies, which are increasingly popular can set their own salaries anyway).

I'm not a teacher, but I live with two trainees and work within education, so I know the pressures. NASUWT members do not have different pay to NUT/ATL etc. members, so I don't know how you can say that about their tactics. Yes, they aren't striking but they haven't been successful at solving the issues that are being struck (?) for.

Yes, many other people may earn less, but either they work a lot less hours, or they don't have to be as qualified (often a postgrad qualification), or don't have the same level of responsibility, or a mixture of all three. You can't compare the jobs fairly like that. I'm not saying that an NQT salary is not enough to live on, but that it (and later salaries) don't reflect the amount of work done by teachers.

And as for pensions - the contributions have increased, with less pay out at the end (not to mention the later age of being able to take it). The civil service pensions are not the 'gold standard' that they used to be. And with those increased contributions and little/no salary increase, take home pay is less (and made even less due to inflation)

Banning people from striking is a form of tyranny. If workers want more, they should be able to campaign for more. If teachers simply want a decent standard of living, it is not them we should be angry at, it is the government. These psychopaths like Cameron have forgotten that the government is the servant of the people. They should be scared of us, not vice versa.

I would like to make it clear that days where teachers go on strike, I happen to get nothing done, if I am required to go to school.

Today we had around 3 hours of doing 'nothing'; the teachers weren't in.

Added to that it was an awards assembly, so we literally did hardly any work.

So you're not a proactive self starter then huh?

That'll get you far in the workplace or in business :P

People talk about how kids education was disrupted, has this ruined kids futures? Well kids go school to make their future better, but what kind of future have they got when people like teachers don't stand up and try to make a change? Without teachers there would be no education thus they should be happy and satisfied. Can't believe the poll says differently. I bet if the shoe is on the other foot it would be different.

People talk about how kids education was disrupted, has this ruined kids futures? Well kids go school to make their future better, but what kind of future have they got when people like teachers don't stand up and try to make a change?

Errrrr the poll says they should be allowed to strike...?

Currently reading 70% no, 30% yes

Or couldn't you read the poll question because you didn't get educated today?

Except the current strikes, like most, have NOTHING to do with the actual teacher, they're just annoyed that they, assuming the head does their job correctly, have to actually do their job well to get a pay rise that, until now, they got just for not doing anything too stupid.

Except the current strikes, like most, have NOTHING to do with the actual teacher, they're just annoyed that they, assuming the head does their job correctly, have to actually do their job well to get a pay rise that, until now, they got just for not doing anything too stupid.

And you have proof of that do you?

Oh my mistake. I didnt get educated? Says you who cant accept people no no no let me say humans make mistakes. Lets get an insight into your masses of intellect...give me your response

Half my family work in education?

lol just an ironic place to make a mistake where you misread something

Not really when this is not about intellect or anything remotely related to a human error...but I tell you what is an irony saying I misread when you misread the whole theme/ topic of the article.

Really?

What in my first post led you to believe that?

Care to explain?

I crossed a picket line this morning and still don't know what that means.

And I really don't know whay its happening. Not like they're going to get a 5% pay deal.