#supportourteachers — Public Fediverse posts
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Gillian Keegan says 'Children have been through so much in the pandemic & I can’t think of a worse time to be willingly keeping them out of school'... but then blames the #teachers for the continuing #strike action.
No, they are out of school because of years of #Tory attacks on teachers & a current unwillingness to try and settle the dispute... as always, its never the #Tories' fault, oh no, there's always someone else to blame!
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Looks like unless the Govt. is prepared to do something meaningful about #Teachers pay & conditions, we are heading towards an Autumn of discontent, with the prospect of a #generalstrike across the entire #teaching profession.
Given the Govt. (backed by the rabid right press) is unlikely to change its stance we need to prepare to support both teachers & parents weather this storm.
To win we need to:
#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourteachers
& do what we can to help -
Since 2017, 147 #Education & #Healthcare workers have died from #mesothelioma (caused by #asbestos):
what this tells us is that the defunding of these sectors, robbing maintenance budgets to keep things going, is having a fatal impact on the sectors' #workers.
Failure to remove asbestos from #schools & #hospitals is killing the staff.
not only won't the #Tories pay health/teaching staff properly they've engineered a situation that kills them at work.
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It will be no surprise to you that #inflation has hit the value of (real terms) incomes, in both the private & public sectors...
Certainly private sector #employees are suffering, but this is outstripped by the fall in #publicsector wages (in real terms)... this alongside greater remaining unionisation gives us the context for the #strike action(s), even if the reasons are wider than just pay
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While I'm sure no-one here thinks the #strikers are rabble-rousing anti-social lefties seeking to disrupt our wonderful system, it nevertheless is worth reading these first-hand accounts of the desperate circumstances that have driven people onto the #picketlines
#SupportTheStrikes
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportourTeachers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/why-we-strike-workers-reasons-joining-picket-line-britains-new-winter-discontent