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Strikes
By Grace
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Interested to hear about the thought of striking. This was something I couldn't quite get to grips with. In BC in the summer, the bus drivers had been on strike for months. My brother in law is a bus driver and he was on| picket duty at different times. What amazed me was how it was allowed to go on for so long that people actually lost their jobs as they had no way of getting to work. Their was hardship for the drivers too. Do the strikes actually pay off. I feel that you may have support until you really do strike and then working parents would very soon change their minds if they had to pay for childcare. | |
We have just been awarded a pay rise in a very strange way. It is called a threshold payment and you are only eligble to apply if you have been teaching for ten years. You then had to fill in a form with lots of details stating how you help to raise school standards, monitor and assess children etc. The form took about six hours to fill in and you had to have evidence available for an assessor to see. On sucessful crossing of the threshold we each receive a lump sum of £2001 sterling, about 4000 or more $Can. This is also what goes onto our pay for next year. Our unions always do the negotiating and strikes are never well supported. Hope you get what you want and soon. Cathy-Dee you will need it to keep warm.
Grace
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