Discount for teachers and NHS staff.

I think the pay for teachers is pitiful. I actually looked at topping up my degree to teach with PGCE and the cost of it didn't make sense, so I retrained in a completely different field for less than what it would have cost to get the PGCE. The amount of stress teachers have to face is unbelievable too.

I agree with though Amberglass, I think the cost of housing is a big part of the problem, either renting or buying.

My youngest Daughter is the head of a Nursery school, providing care for Keyworkers and vulnerable Children. The numbers in attendance daily is around 60% less of normal, resulting in less takings in fees, and staff being sent home on furlough. They have also had to close a few times on advice of the local Council, for which they do not get paid. A few times my Daughter has not earned enough wages to put food on the table, and it's been down to the bank of Mum and Dad to keep her and our Grandchildren fed for the week.
The Morrison's discount, plus shopping at budget supermarkets such as Aldi and Iceland have been her lifeline.
Just because she is a Teacher doesn't mean that she is wealthy, far from.it, after 12 years training and experience , her Friend that works at Aldi full time earns a lot more than she does.

Universal Basic Income, rent controls, better funding for the NHS and other social care would make a world of difference.

Shame the govt prefers to shore up tax dodgers, waste millions on Brexit and pour money into the military instead. Oh, and leave a trading bloc that offered huge amounts of support and protection.

janeainsworth

Well just carry on arguing with yourself Suzie, I'm going to make a cup of .

Yes well it’s impossible to have a proper discussion about this issue because man6y posters are incapable of logical thought on this topic. To sum up ‘it’s not fair that some people get discounts and others don’t but no I haven’t got a suggestion for addressing this other than saying it’s not fair’ Shame really because structural inequality is actually quite an important issue

Well just carry on arguing with yourself Suzie, I'm going to make a cup of .

janeainsworth

^General rule of thumb - those who resent and criticise public sector workers will often demonstrate negative attitudes towards those on benefits.^
Suzie no-one on this thread has said they resent public sector workers or those on benefits.

It was a general point because of the absolute failure of most posters on this thread to want to address the real issue of poverty. There is no way that Morrison’s or any other supermarket could give discounts to ‘the poor’ . Come on - you address poverty through proper govt policies not by criticising capitalist organisations making marketing decisions. And yes there was implicit if not explicit resentment plus a complete unawareness of the low pay pay of many in the NHS and schools.

General rule of thumb - those who resent and criticise public sector workers will often demonstrate negative attitudes towards those on benefits.
Suzie no-one on this thread has said they resent public sector workers or those on benefits.

But the answer to this does not lie in Morrisons giving them a discount does it?

I never said it was, Suzie.
All I said was that Morrisons was effectively taxing its customers, some of whom were almost certainly struggling financially, in order to subsidise teachers and NHS staff.

It's the job of government to redistribute wealth, not the job of supermarkets. Just because the government isn't doing that to our satisfaction, it doesn't justify the supermarkets doing the job for them.

AGAA4

*Let's see if the govt take away the UC £20pw*

I really hope this doesn't happen. People are struggling as it is.

General rule of thumb - those who resent and criticise public sector workers will often demonstrate negative attitudes towards those on benefits.

Let's see if the govt take away the UC £20pw

I really hope this doesn't happen. People are struggling as it is.

janeainsworth

^No it’s not - it’s about teachers/NHS not deserving it with no mention of the structural inequalities in our society^

That’s your interpretation suzie.
I interpreted the OP not as a suggestion that teachers didn’t deserve a discount but that there were others, particularly in a city like Hull, who were struggling financially much more than most teachers would be.

But the answer to this does not lie in Morrisons giving them a discount does it? Hence my comment about structural inequalities. Let’s see if the govt take away the UC £20pw

3. Discount is not valid on Fuel, Spirits (England), All alcohol (Scotland and Wales), Tobacco, Lottery products, Gift Vouchers & Cards, Infant/Formula Milk, Cash-back, Dry Cleaning, Fireworks, Online Games & Instant Tickets, Photo Printing, Saver Stamps, Postage Stamps, ‘Top-Up’ Mobile Phone Cards, & Pharmacy.

oops forgot this copy and paste from Granny's link

Grannynannywanny

Missfoodlove

I know a doctor that would have no shame in stocking his wine racks with the discount

There are lots of things it can’t be used on, including alcohol.

my.morrisons.com/nhs/

Actually if the doctor lives in England then he will be able to fill his wine rack, but not his spirits cupboard. It's only in Wales and Scotland no alcohol is allowed.

‘Miss Foodlove’, I can assure you the GP will not be using his discount to fill his wine rack. My son is a frontline worker in Morrisons and as such is entitled to a staff discount. The discount, and I am sure this applies to teachers and NHS staff as well cannot be used towards the purchase of alcohol.

No it’s not - it’s about teachers/NHS not deserving it with no mention of the structural inequalities in our society

That’s your interpretation suzie.
I interpreted the OP not as a suggestion that teachers didn’t deserve a discount but that there were others, particularly in a city like Hull, who were struggling financially much more than most teachers would be.

Missfoodlove

Where did jealousy come in to this.
It is about people who need the most help.

No it’s not - it’s about teachers/NHS not deserving it with no mention of the structural inequalities in our society

Where did jealousy come in to this.
It is about people who need the most help.

Exactly Suzie. We could stand united, but the powers that be prefer to keep the proles divided.

GrannyRose15

Jealousy of each other is what keeps this country from being truly great. If we could only stop seeing everything as an "us and them" situation and realise we are all in this together then we might be able to move forward.

No jealousy of each other and blaming each other ( eg I’m poor because Morrison’s give discounts to NHS staff/teachers) is exactly what the establishment in this country encourages and manipulates. It stops us putting the blame where it really belongs ie on them

Jealousy of each other is what keeps this country from being truly great. If we could only stop seeing everything as an "us and them" situation and realise we are all in this together then we might be able to move forward.

GagaJo

It's a bit of a fallacy that teachers are on high salaries these days. When I joined the profession, indeed, wages were good. But there are less and less teachers around on those wages now and newly qualified teachers don't earn much at all, when you consider the hours they work.

Is Morrisons trying to slightly change their target market too?

Fewer and fewer.

There have been discounts for months and months across a whole range of businesses for a range of staff - not just NHS, and teaching but other emergency workers. I just don’t get why people are so critical about the workings of a market economy. Cross subsidisation. occurs in a huge variety of ways in our society but it’s the wealthy that do best out of the rest of us. These discounts in the great scheme of the inequalities in our society are really nothing and being sour about them is just evidence of how fooled so many people are by what are the real issues facing us. We keep falling into the old trap of blaming each other for our economic woes whilst the tax avoiders and recipients of government largesse laugh all the way to their off shore banks.

It's a bit of a fallacy that teachers are on high salaries these days. When I joined the profession, indeed, wages were good. But there are less and less teachers around on those wages now and newly qualified teachers don't earn much at all, when you consider the hours they work.

Is Morrisons trying to slightly change their target market too?

Ohmother Indeed they are!

So, I guess they're all using it as a marketing opportunity to get their names out there.