I detest the idea of being bullied and prevented from working despite my union not supporting the strike action having not taken a vote to strike. Yet advising members not to cross picket lines.
I am also against the current strike action because I am one of many professionals who feel that yes the pensions need reviewing in the current situation Britain finds itself in.
In the last few years we have endured cuts, cuts and yet more cuts to haul us out of the crisis that we are in and yet some of my fellow teaching staff see the need to strike.
So I thought I should make it clear the unions who are telling its members to strike have no real consideration for the damage they are doing to children's education as the union executives pocket handsome 100k per annum salaries courtesy of the teachers on their books. So I feel this strike was a waste of time as it has ony served to damage the reputation of teachers.
Furthermore, when I consider the state Britain is in financially going on strike further exasperates the situation for others. In partcular those who will pick up nothing else other than a state pension when they come to retire. In addition there are many who lost out on their private one, when Gordon Brown reviewed the pensions and disseminated them placing many into retirement poverty several years ago.
In my view and I may be villified for this, all public sector pensions need reviewing as the true cost on the public purse is greater than the National debt of three European countries and should never have been supported to this level in the beginning. I mean it makes common sense that you should only be able to draw on your pension pot if you have paid for it and some 3 to 6% is not going to give the individual a reasonable pension pot when the majority of private pensions require some 17.5% or 20% of your income.
At present the average state pension is circa 3.500 thousand is a far cry from what professional pensions will be despite the majority of them being based upon what percentages of salary has been paid in to warrant it.|||I do not support the public sector strikes at all.This country cannot keep affording the level of public sector pensions that are paid out often to people before the age of 65. Neither can private bussinesses keep up the payment of pensions to it's employees,in some cases for 30 plus years.
As 1 of a couple who worked all their working lives where there are no pensions paid on retirement other than the state pension it really angers me to see the greed from those that have not only been paid huge salaries plus expenses sitting on their backsides mainly still demanding more.My husband and I have worked extremely hard at our jobs and are amongst the most important contributers to everybodies life style (lorry driver and carer) who on retirement were still only earning the minimum wage and are now on 拢250 per week state pension between us.We still have not paid off our home,owe no money other than the mortgage and manage to eat reasonably but have few treats.How would these people like to have this to look foreward to?|||I do not see why public sector workers feel they have a right to anything more than the ordinary worker in Britain unless they have paid into a private pension scheme.
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|||children's education is not going to be affected by having one day off , what a ridiculous suggestion , do you realise how stupid you sound
where you angry when the kids had a day off for the royal wedding , did you bitterly complain about them having a day off
of course not because your brainwashed|||No,they are unaffordable it's as simple as that.|||I have worked both in the private sector and the public sector, the places which had strong union support had the best wages, pensions and conditions. The reason why the private sector has worse pensions is because of the attitude of people like yourself who believe everything they are told in the newspapers and are not willing to put themselves out for their entitlements and the entitlements of others. The working conditions we enjoy today are there because others in the past have fought for them.|||The strikes that are about wake increases are absolutely futile.
You loose your wages for the day that you are on strike and you never get that back for many years if you do succeed tin getting a wage increase.
Quite a few strikes are called by little Adolf's who like to feel that they are important, if they were intelligent they would have achieved management rather than squirming into the position of a shop floor convenience which no one else wanted any way.
Of course some of these people use it as a way of getting into politics and one or two work their way up towards the top of their political party. These are always a give away because their actions and looks are similar to those of a thug.|||Your posting covers all 'my' objections to their striking actions - for all the reasons you've stated.
When 'other' taxpayers are funding such a high % of 'their' pensions plans - and these 'morons' demand that continues - no matter the financial mess the country is in - its just a 'moronic' attitude by these public sector workers.|||im not in favour of strikes
but i wish the british public would come out and march the streets like they do in other countries.
and openly protest at what the government is proposing to do the the health service,
increasing the date everyone can retire and get a pension, something they have paid into all their working lives.
the cost of petrol is exorbitant, and the high cost is mostly tax which going straight to the government.
i feel we are being ripped off and robbed, and i wish we werent so accepting of it,
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