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Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Nope I don't believe you have offered up anything that has real value for you to substantiate your belief in what can be achieved by a one day strike- as you yourself said below that you had no clue what would realistically be achieved by a one day strike.

That means you are supporting them but have no real grounds for making that choice to support them, as you stated yourself, you have no clue what difference it would make.



You will find that this impacts upon the private sector very much - many parents of whom work in the private sector - parents of said students who will have to find some way to work around such pathetic actions by some teachers who appear to have no real sense of how fortunate they are this particular time. Any public servant (who are paid for their services from the public tax payers money) who chose strike action: do have a right for it to be questioned by all others in the UK who contribute financially to the fiscal purse. therefore it does indeed have much to do with the private sector - who are also UK citizens and have a right to reply.




If you need someone to be explain a regular, common, every day word, that tells me there has been some serious failings in education levels for longer a period that I initially thought.

Again, empty vessels making the most noise. Very common saying with a very clear meaning. I'm pretty sure you know exactly what that means.

The teachers you will find will not have a majority of support from most people in the private sector and nor a great deal within the public sector either. - many who have been and are, in far more precarious & dangerous roles who don't make so much fuss - they just get on with the job that they are paid to do.

Thankfully, we've evolved a little since the 70's.

I am not privvy to the thoughts and feelings of those teachers striking....They have their reasons for the timescale of the strike,I have attempted to bring them to your attention by posting the news items relating to the issue. Im not sure what else I can do .

I can empathise with them as I can see where they have a grievance, I support them on those grounds.

They are 'fortunate'? To be fair they have trained very hard and for many years to a standard the government has set to fill this role. To label them 'militant' is unfair.
In this economic climate is it right to expect anyone to effectively take a cut in wages?
As I said strike action is a last resort. It will affect me too but I can fully understand why they may feel it is necessary, due to failures in negotiation.

It's your reason for using the word to be honest i'm not sure about....

It's not really.... and why you have applied that saying to hundreds of well educated people who individually may not feel they have a voice but as part of a union do I don't know....

I disagree, I know many people who are 100% behind teachers and indeed all of the public services in the UK.

We don't seem to be getting anywhere here either, but it has been good to hear of opposing views to my own and I respect your opinion. Looks like we will never see eye to eye on this topic