School’s out
April 14th, 2008
posted by Cptn
‘If you can read this, thank a teacher’ was a favourite car bumper sticker during the trouble teachers strikes – who would have thought that the last time those wisdom wranglers walked out was 21 years ago.
On April 24, the NUT will hold a day of industrial action over a pay settlement which pins them back below inflation at 2.45 per cent this year and 2.3 per cent for each of the following two years. Currently the retail prices index is just over 4 per cent.
Parsimonious MPs will probably point to their own pay rise of 1.9 per cent, lest we forget that these arbiters of all that is good curbed their own 10 per cent tendancies on their £60,000 plus pay (let alone the expenses and allowances).
The NUT’s day of action will act as a tribute to Steve Sinnott, NUT General Secretary who died suddenly aged 56 at the beginning of the month.
There will be a strike event at Exeter St James Park (Exeter FC) 11.30am on April 24.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. PRSD | April 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am
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2. g | April 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
32% of the total NUT membership voted, only 24% of that 32% voted yes’
Voting was 48,217 (75%) in favour and 15,884 (25%) against on a 32% turnout.
Based on evidence of from the ONS there are some 458,000 teachers in the UK, therefore there are only about 30% of them in the NUT and only about 25% of them or 10% of the total teacher population (48K voted for a strike).
Membership of Unions only runs at about 25% of working people.
Is this democracy or just another example of extremists who are out of touch with reality?
The point I am making is that only about 10% of teachers are in favour of strike action and this don’t seem democratic or representative whichever way you look at it.
3. Teacher's pet | April 18th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Apply the same sort of statistical analysis to votes in local or national elections and no one has a democratic mandate to do anything. Either accept the rules for voting or reject the idea altogether but don’t moan about the result.
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