In what has evolved into a fight for respect and higher pay, hundreds of thousands of school teachers across England will leave the classrooms and take to the streets this week for 48 hours.
According to protesters “We long to be near our kids. We genuinely want to spend every day with them because the term is almost over”.
But we also understand that because this government doesn’t listen, the fight for the future of our children must include strike action, they said,
These strikes are unavoidable, and while they have an immediate effect, with additional compensation, teachers will be more motivated and able to contribute in the long run as opposed to withering away.
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The teachers are not only on strike, but they are also quitting their jobs because they are underpaid and overworked.
To become a teacher, one must invest a lot of time, money, and effort; one does not become a teacher to lead a simple life.
According to the UK work routine, teachers put their entire being into their work and put in fifty-sixty-hour work weeks.
However, forty percent of the teachers leave after four or five years, which is a terrible situation for which the government is solely accountable.
The government has made teachers a fair and reasonable pay offer, according to Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan.
Unions claim that her department’s decision to withhold recommendations for a purportedly higher pay offer made by the independent school teachers review body runs the risk of prolonging the current dispute.
According to the government, schools should pay for any pay raises out of their existing budgets.
However, the teachers have been fighting back, arguing that any pay increase should be fully funded by the government because the school budget is already overstretched.
And it’s not just the teacher’s unions that aren’t being heard.
During the months of nationwide industrial action, workers in the public sector, including those in the transportation and health sectors, have stood by one another. This show of solidarity has frightened the government into passing a set of draconian laws that will make strikes more challenging.
The majority of the rights that we as employees enjoy today were made possible by unions and strike actions.
The ability to respect this right, which is currently not being done and will have an impact on people for generations to come, actually benefits everyone.
The London strikers are defiant, saying they will continue with industrial action until their demands are met despite the unpredictability and high inflation in the country.
