Strikes

We’ve had some on the ‘how do they afford it’ thread, BlueBelle. I also have teachers in my family who have retired early on very good pensions.

Where do you get your information from GSM I don’t know any nurse that retires at 55 on a good pension

Germanshepherdsmum

That doesn’t sound unreasonable to me. People in the private sector have to have highly paid jobs to be able to afford to retire at 55.

But as what you said is no longer true about pensions and retirement age in the public sector, I take it from your response that you do agree with them striking for better pay?

That doesn’t sound unreasonable to me. People in the private sector have to have highly paid jobs to be able to afford to retire at 55.

Germanshepherdsmum

I will be very unpopular for saying this, but teachers, nurses and other public sector workers may not receive huge salaries but they certainly get good pensions which enable them to retire at 55. It has to be viewed in the round - you can’t have it all ways. An increase in salary of course, but look at the total package compared with people in the private sector.

Used to GSM. The current younger public sector staff will get much poorer pensions than their forebears. People who work for the NHS can no longer get their pension if they retire at 55.

Exactly Chocolatelovinggran. I think 5 years is the average time young teachers stay in the job. There's only a certain amount of time anyone can tolerate a 70 hour a week job.

The percentage of teachers starting in post at 22 and staying the course until retirement is scarily low. It's not about pay, it's about teachers being expected to be counsellors, social workers, police officers whilst being berated by the government for not achieving the ( arbitrarily set) targets for their children.

I'll have grandson for the strike days which will definitely impact my working from home. But I 100% support the strikes.

Yes , grandchildren here this week due to strikes. Can't decide where I stand on this issue. I do know it causes massive problems, but of course they know that !

That's a bit out dated GSM, they could only retire at 55 if they have been teaching since university and have paid in enough funds? there are lots of the workforce that join after industry experience or after having families too.

The nice pensions are a thing of the past

Teachers striking aren't only striking for pay anyway. It's more terrible conditions than pay. Hence the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

That is no longer the case for teachers GSM. It used to be, but those days are gone.

I will be very unpopular for saying this, but teachers, nurses and other public sector workers may not receive huge salaries but they certainly get good pensions which enable them to retire at 55. It has to be viewed in the round - you can’t have it all ways. An increase in salary of course, but look at the total package compared with people in the private sector.