Schools closed Tuesday 28th March

andycarmi

Hi is all over England the strike, It all UNISON menmbers. as posted by Wonka.
Most support staff are in this Union.

Most teachers are not in Unison there in NUT (Teacher Unison)

Are school is open but there is no school dinners so letters have gone out today to tell children to bring a pack lunch!!!

VickyA_2

My school will be open, but those teaching assistants who are in UNISON won't be in school. Due to the lack of supervision at lunchtime from teaching assistants and lunchtime supervisors(and the fact that apparently teaching unions have advised that teachers still need their lunch break), the children have to go home for 45 mins which is their lunch break.Most of the other schools in the area are closed, but the governors have taken the decision to keep ours open. It would have been a different matter if the caretaker's membership for UNISON had come through....................... :rolleyes:

VickyA_2

andycarmi wrote:

Most teachers are not in Unison there in NUT (Teacher Unison)

Sorry to be pedantic, but there is more than one teaching union. The NUT is one of the largest (and the one that is the most millitant, so you hear most about it!), but I belong to one of the others - the ATL. There's also the NASUWT and the PAT that I know of. Probably a few more, but I'm not sure

VickyA_2

beaker141 wrote:

This strike action galls me ! Schools think it appropriate to levy fines on parents who take their kids out of school during term time for an annual holiday (cheaply), yet then think it acceptable to close the school for a day when the teachers aren't happy about something !

Smacks of double standards to me.

It's the teaching assistants and other support staff that are striking, not the teachers. Or should I say, it's the members of UNISON which encompasses teaching assistants and other support staff.

alice's_mum

This strike action galls me ! Schools think it appropriate to levy fines on parents who take their kids out of school during term time for an annual holiday (cheaply), yet then think it acceptable to close the school for a day when the teachers aren't happy about something !

Smacks of double standards to me.

This is nothing to do with Teachers not being happy with something it is about supporting their colleagues who face loosing their pension rights, UNISON members are on strike because the Government wants to mess with our pension rights, They

"refuses to give protection for existing members of their pension scheme, and have said LGPS members will have to keep working until they are 65"

Even though they have been paying 6% of their salary into the pension scheme and planning for their retirement for years.

Basically the Local Authorities seem to have spent our pension funds and now the Government is saying that we can't be guaranteed a pension regardless of how long we've been in the pension fund. They HAVE guaranteed Civil servants, teachers, police, firefighters and the NHS but Local Government staff dont seem to be deserving of this right.

The teachers are on strike, because they agree it's not fair that they are protected and those who work with them are not. Many aren't actullay on strike but schools can't run without Kitchen staff, caretakers, secretaries, and teaching assistants. And it is for the safety of the children that the schools may be closed.

Spendless

VickyA wrote:

), the children have to go home for 45 mins which is their lunch break.

Do you think you'll still get some kids off all day though Vicky cos of arrangements having to be made midday to be home for kids going home for lunch.

VickyA_2

Spendless wrote:

Do you think you'll still get some kids off all day though Vicky cos of arrangements having to be made midday to be home for kids going home for lunch.

Oh yes. The school is fully expecting to have some children who don't turn up/don't come back in the afternoon. They're also wondering whether some of the children will be left on the playground during the lunch 45mins due to the fact their parents won't be at home, due to work, to feed them. The school has sent letters out to parents saying that there WILL NOT be supervision at lunchtime etc etc and no children will be allowed in the school............ but alot of the parents work. It's a double edged sword.

wigginsmum

It's going to affect my DH's school in East London; UNISON, GMB and TGU are definitely involved. NUT may be calling for a support of the strike in terms of its members not crossing the picketline but he hasn't heard yet what his union NASUWT are going to do. Apparently ATL have a non-strike policy.

VickyA_2

wigginsmum wrote:

It's going to affect my DH's school in East London; UNISON, GMB and TGU are definitely involved. NUT may be calling for a support of the strike in terms of its members not crossing the picketline but he hasn't heard yet what his union NASUWT are going to do. Apparently ATL have a non-strike policy.

The PAT are definitely non-striking, but as far as I'm aware, ATL just tow the line of the other two. I'm a member of the ATL because they gave me free membership for my first year of teaching. Moi? Able to be bought? (especially when I was an unemployed teacher )

ceewash

beaker141 wrote:

This strike action galls me ! Schools think it appropriate to levy fines on parents who take their kids out of school during term time for an annual holiday (cheaply), yet then think it acceptable to close the school for a day when the teachers aren't happy about something !

Smacks of double standards to me.

IT'S NOT THE TEACHERS WHO ARE ON STRIKE.