Next Weeks Public Sector Strikes

[Doggy Styles]

Most teachers work pretty hard, with various results affected by all kinds of stuff.

But whatever, I don't support public sector strikes to protect current pension rights.

I would sympathise with older employees if they were suddenly told they had lost 20/30-years worth of financial planning and it is too late for them to make up their fund shortfall, but as I understand it the proposed new rules mitigate the change for older employees.

The bottom line is that total pension liabilities in the UK are unaffordable. Private sector workers are buying their own pensions out of a lower average wage than the public sector, and pay through their taxes for public sector pensions as well. So if they have no choice but to accept less, so should the public sector.

[filthy1980]

just been told contractors have to take the day off as no other fecker will be in work on wednesday so we shouldn't have anything to do

no consideration of the 3 "must have project's" i've got to deliver before xmas - straight onto the issue log

[northernladuk]

just been told contractors have to take the day off as no other fecker will be in work on wednesday so we shouldn't have anything to do

no consideration of the 3 "must have project's" i've got to deliver before xmas - straight onto the issue log

Good for IR35 though

[Support Monkey]

I love teacher training days, funny though i have never been to the garage and its closed due to mechanic training day or popped into sainsburys to find it closed due to checkout training day

you get my drift

[TheFaQQer]

I would sympathise with older employees if they were suddenly told they had lost 20/30-years worth of financial planning and it is too late for them to make up their fund shortfall, but as I understand it the proposed new rules mitigate the change for older employees.

You understand wrong, then. Or define older as something different than I do.

My sister (who isn't striking next week) has been paying in the maximum allowed for over 20 years now, with a target retirement date, which has now been shifted by another ten years. She can't pay in any more than she already has done, because she's maxed out.

So having budgeted carefully, saved, planned for the retirement in 13 years time, she's now got to work 23 more years until she can retire on the same pension.

[Doggy Styles]

I don't know about your sister's age group, but any public sector worker (not just teachers) within ten years of retirement will not incur any increase in their retirement age or reduction in the pension payments they will receive.

[MarillionFan]

just been told contractors have to take the day off as no other fecker will be in work on wednesday so we shouldn't have anything to do

no consideration of the 3 "must have project's" i've got to deliver before xmas - straight onto the issue log

Feck that.

[psychocandy]

Really, on £26k or whatever it is? And it's not 12 weeks off, it's 12 weeks not in the class-room. You're still expected to do some work.

like what?

[SueEllen]

like what?

Actually I know teachers who work in the public sector who are made to come in during their summer holidays. They are made to do the paperwork (given to them by the government) the head doesn't want to do while s/he swans off on a long haul holiday.

While it's hard to sack teachers, headteachers do have tricks up their sleeves to get rid of teachers they don't like and they have used them for years.

It's basically telling the person that they are sh*t, giving them all the pupils that are disruptive or can turn disruptive* and then getting them reviewed/lessons sat in by senior staff members constantly.

Another way of getting rid of sh*t teachers is to get funding from the latest government initiative i.e. at the moment turning the school into an academy and then have a restructuring.

And that's just qualified teachers some people never qualify due to these tactics.

*A trick my class used at school and we managed to get rid of a teacher after 1.5 terms of being disruptive. Oddly when we had another teacher doing cover even if they were a slacker in discipline we behaved. Children can be very nasty if a teacher isn't up to the job.

[TheFaQQer]

While it's hard to sack teachers, headteachers do have tricks up their sleeves to get rid of teachers they don't like and they have used them for years.

If they aren't on a permanent contract, then it's much easier to get rid.