🧵35 Years of Teacher Strikes - a lot less than you think!
#BePrepared #SuitUp #ChangeTheNarrative
1. You are always doing this
2. Teachers have it easy
3. Think of the Children
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#BePrepared #SuitUp #ChangeTheNarrative
1. You are always doing this
2. Teachers have it easy
3. Think of the Children
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1. You are always doing this. There have been 3 significant national teacher strikes in the last 35 years.
1987 - conditions and class sizes
2008 NUT strike over pay 8k/25k schools closed
2011 Pension strike supported by NUT/NASUWT and NAHT (first national ballot ever). /2
1987 - conditions and class sizes
2008 NUT strike over pay 8k/25k schools closed
2011 Pension strike supported by NUT/NASUWT and NAHT (first national ballot ever). /2
62% of English schools closed.
In 2014 and 16 the NUT staged strikes the shut barely 12% of schools.
Change the narrative - 3 major strikes in 35 years over working conditions/class sizes, pay and pensions. /3
In 2014 and 16 the NUT staged strikes the shut barely 12% of schools.
Change the narrative - 3 major strikes in 35 years over working conditions/class sizes, pay and pensions. /3
2. Teachers have it easy
Pay bbc.co.uk/news/64064200.…
Holidays - you might not get comparable pay to someone in a similar private sector position but you get the holidays and pension right?- over the last 10 years teachers have been paying more and getting less. /4
Pay bbc.co.uk/news/64064200.…
Holidays - you might not get comparable pay to someone in a similar private sector position but you get the holidays and pension right?- over the last 10 years teachers have been paying more and getting less. /4
Career Average has wiped 10s of thousands off the average teacher’s pension.
So what about holiday teachthought.com/pedagogy/summe… this is American but the arguments are the same. I will try and dig out recent UK stats. /5
So what about holiday teachthought.com/pedagogy/summe… this is American but the arguments are the same. I will try and dig out recent UK stats. /5
3. Think of the Children
This is why we are contemplating strike action. Our school system is an after thought. Funding is broken 5-9% unfunded pay rise, 300-500% increase in energy costs.
3. Haven’t children suffered enough. Yes and this is a line in the sand for them./6
This is why we are contemplating strike action. Our school system is an after thought. Funding is broken 5-9% unfunded pay rise, 300-500% increase in energy costs.
3. Haven’t children suffered enough. Yes and this is a line in the sand for them./6
Strike action will legally be over pay but it will really be about
4 year CAMHS waiting list
10 years of austerity,
years of treating our schools as an after thought
asked to do more with less
Toxic accountability leading unimaginable pressure on everyone in our schools /7
4 year CAMHS waiting list
10 years of austerity,
years of treating our schools as an after thought
asked to do more with less
Toxic accountability leading unimaginable pressure on everyone in our schools /7
If teaching is this highly paid utopian wonderland then why are their thousands of unfilled vacancies across the country at every level?
There is a lot right about our schools but we have reached a tipping point where what is wrong about them is endangering the whole system /8
There is a lot right about our schools but we have reached a tipping point where what is wrong about them is endangering the whole system /8
Teachers do not strike often. For some it will be their first time ever in a career spanning 30 years.
It is often said that striking is a last resort. I agree but I get the sense for many their strike will be a primal scream against a breaking system.
It is often said that striking is a last resort. I agree but I get the sense for many their strike will be a primal scream against a breaking system.
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