Britain faces biggest day of strike action in over a decade

Teachers have joined thousands of public sector workers for the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade. The majority of state schools in England and Wales will be fully or partly closed, as train and bus drivers, university lecturers and civil servants also walk out. Members of the National Education Union, whose ranks have been swelled by 40,000 new members in the last fortnight, are asking for an inflation-busting pay rise.

[Sonhereshow]

The problem is our countries would rather fund war than education.

[aleccap]

Only one day. If this was a school report, in BIG RED LETTERS must try harder

[carlosdeno]

They had two years stress free and 80% of their wage paid, they’re delusional and wouldn’t know a days graft if it fell on them from a thousand feet!

[thomasanders]

Precarious pay is becoming a global trend.

[droneographytv]

All we do is work, work, work and when we get paid at the end of the month, the money we have left over after rent, mortgage, insurance, goes to camera fines, parking permits, ulez zones, congestion charge zones, tv licence, several tire punctures because of pot holes from our shitty roads, getting robbed by 9 year olds with samurai swords begger then them, then we start the process All over again. The good life.

[johnparr]

I fully agree, more pay for public funded workers. But with - one clause-.... Just one. Mind you*. Centralised and Local Government workers. LOSE THE PERK OF TAX PAYER FUNDED FINAL PENSIONS*

[zielonysnajper]

*Qualified teacher salary*

England (excluding London) and Wales - £28, 000 to £38, 810

London - £29, 344 to £40, 083 (fringes), £32, 407 to £43, 193 (outer), £34, 502 to £44, 756 (inner)

Scotland - £33, 729 to £42, 336

Northern Ireland - £24, 137 to £41, 094

[chrissker]

You agreed your salary, you chose your career, but you refused to stick with your responsibility, refuse to adjust how you live like everyone else is doing in the world, and all you do is to blame on a grovenment and threaten for more money but doing the same job that you do everyday..

[dominika]

Nah don’t worry 99%percent of use hate school and we don’t learn anything anyway for example my school employee people who look like they got out of crack dens

[bushwhackeddos.]

At least the kids are not getting indoctri nated today, gotta look on the bright side.

[westaussie]

get back to work and do the job you applied for and accepted, knowing what it pays. You get weeks and weeks of holidays each year, more than the rest of us, and no you aren't always marking tests on your days off, so don't lie

[helennewburyjones]

l meditated though school 🏫😳👌
How come im more intuitive and know betterthan most controlled souls
l pray for all to see the light 🙏

[Hangman]

Anyone see the reason why Tories should be scared of this ONE DAY Strike parade?

[roninhood]

47 comments at the time of writing this one, but only 16 visible. Free speech going strong! Disgraceful.

[disobeytoday]

The irony is that these teachers don't teach kids anything about inflation, interest rates or civic duty. They support a system that keeps the poor poor

[kwakuba]

But you support your govt sending unlimited billions to Ukraine. Where do you think that money comes from?. Your taxes and paychecks? The irony and the foolishness

[bonglandgreg]

And it all suddenly starts escalating right after starmer visits his master's in Davos. What a coincidence.

[vatsmith]

This country's up to its eyeballs in debt, we can't afford big public-sector pay rises. Sorry.

[helennewburyjones]

Home scool is inevitablythe way forward with steiner training 💪🙌

[dcsniper]

Fire them all, no sympathy. You sign a contract, nobody made you. If you are worth more then demonstrate it, you are owed nothing extra.