Thank you to
all members who took strike action
The NUT
joining unions across the public sector yesterday had a fantastic response to
the strike call. With around 100 schools in East Sussex fully closed and many
more only partially staying open we had a massive impact. We were talking to the
media all day and getting the message out that teachers deserve better than 60
hour weeks until we are 68 while having our pay system broken to
pieces.
Recent polls
show over 50% of the public trust trade union views on the state of the public
sector, while only 23% believe the government.
The Police
estimate 3000 people (pictures below) took to the streets of Brighton in the
strike demonstrations with members also joining events in Hastings and along the
south coast.
I hope you
will be proud that again you have stood up for not only your own working
conditions but also the future of our profession.
Finally if
the government want to attack our right to strike with minimum turnouts then
they should remember that our mandate to ask members to strike has lasted 2
years and was 92% Yes on a 40% turnout (37%) whereas David Cameron has a been
operating for 4 years on a 36% vote on a 65% turnout (23%).
