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Public sector strikes - how will this affect the average family?

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  • emmaanddave
    emmaanddave Posts: 299 Forumite
    moomoomama27 wrote: »
    With respect that is a very immature viewpoint!

    I would disagree and am just making the most of their strike day to have an extra long weekend! Nothing wrong with that considering the teachers are chosing ot close the school by their actions.
  • jeffandk8
    jeffandk8 Posts: 42 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    And you want your children taught PE etc by a 68 year old???
  • emmaanddave
    emmaanddave Posts: 299 Forumite
    jeffandk8 wrote: »
    And you want your children taught PE etc by a 68 year old???

    Some 68 yr olds are fit and have alot of knowldege and life experience! Don't write all of them off!
  • shirlgirl2004
    shirlgirl2004 Posts: 2,983 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I don't know the full extent of who is going to ballot for strike action but it probably won't affect our family at all. The children are home educated anyway so we'll go to gymnastics, have lunch with a friend and then go home. No change there then.
  • Janepig
    Janepig Posts: 16,780 Forumite
    ChrisEvanson wrote: »
    Well said. It makes my blood boil when people join a union (look up the meaning of the word) and then won't go along with the majority vote. If you don't want to be in a union then don't be, but those who leach what they want from a union then refuse to toe the line when the decision doesn't go their way shouldn't be in it.

    It's a free country (well it was the last time I looked) - I pay handsome contributions to the union I'm in (a very small union, more of a professional body) and if I don't wish to strike then I bloody well wont. What about all the people I work with who aren't in the union but also "benefit" from pay negotiations, etc... (such as they are)? Scab, leach, etc... yawwwwn. And as I said, we haven't been balloted, and I've heard no word that we are being balloted - the last few times we've been balloted we've voted no - which says to me that people are realising what a pointless waste of time it is and a waste of a days pay that most people can ill afford.

    Jxx
    And it looks like we made it once again
    Yes it looks like we made it to the end
  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    emmaanddave wrote: »
    Not at all. I don't agree with the strikes in this capacity as it effects our child's education and if it continues there will be longer weeks in Sept, so I have heard. If they think it is alright to stop teacing for xxx number of days then they should not complain of we take our kids out for one day. That's all.

    Really I'd have thought that if kids were missing education it would be even more imperative to attend on all other days to make up for anything missed....
    People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    geri1965 wrote: »
    So you're intending to scab if the vote doesn't go your way? What is the point of being in a union if you are not prepared to go with the majority decision? I assume you are happy to take any pay rises they negotiate on your behalf?

    non-union members get the same pay rise as union members in my public service department - so whats your point exactly? I've never understood that particular argument for going along with union ballot majority votes.
  • moomoomama27
    moomoomama27 Posts: 3,823 Forumite
    rachbc wrote: »
    Really I'd have thought that if kids were missing education it would be even more imperative to attend on all other days to make up for anything missed....

    Exactly! Which is why I said what I said! It's a bit like tit for tat to say well I'll keep my child off for a day, because you closed the school!

    I pity the future generation, with role models like that!
  • emmaanddave
    emmaanddave Posts: 299 Forumite
    rachbc wrote: »
    Really I'd have thought that if kids were missing education it would be even more imperative to attend on all other days to make up for anything missed....

    If it was that imperative to them(the school) then the teachers would not strike in the first place.
  • emmaanddave
    emmaanddave Posts: 299 Forumite
    moomoomama27 wrote: »
    Exactly! Which is why I said what I said! It's a bit like tit for tat to say well I'll keep my child off for a day, because you closed the school!

    I pity the future generation, with role models like that!

    Please don't judge me based on taking my children out for one day. Don't care what you think, I am not the only parent THINKING of doing this..nothing wrong with our children, well rounded and educated - they are reaching targets for the years above them so no prob in that department thank you.:D
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