Many public sector strikes are union members striking because the Government of the day are offering new recruits better conditions and pay then they currently possess.
The public sector strikes this year need to be far more than that level of self interest.
Teachers, Nurses, Drs and everyone else in the public sector need to strike for more than petty internal differences.
Let’s be completely honest – all that is being asked for in the current teachers strike and all that is being offered are band-aids to haemorrhaging problems in education.
Teachers deserve 4 day weeks + more pay + extra resources + a teacher’s aid in each class + provide bonded scholarships with accomodation for new teachers!
Teachers work miracles with our kids, there are few silver bullets in social policy, education is one of them.
We need to nurture an education environment that respects Teachers and resources them properly because our Schools are central hubs within our community that can and must be utilised and supported more.
That takes far more money, that takes a Government with the courage to tax the fucking rich more so that excellent public education continues to be the egalitarian pillar of New Zealand.
Striking for band aids that don’t go anywhere towards the required solutions seems so limited and shallow.
Demand more than a new fitting for the current underfunded straightjacket.
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Amen
Well said Jason .What you say is common sense so do not expect to hear it repeated by any politician.
Agree 100%. Nor should the teaching profession be used to promulgate pernicious racial and gender propoganda.
Truancy up. Literacy down. Stem performance down. How does a four day week fix this?
If teachers ask for a four day week without all other workers getting a four day week then they will lose any sympathy they have for a pay rise. Why would they need a four day week when they already get a quarter of the year off for holidays? And where would we get 25% more teachers to cover the one day a week they would play truant?
Sadly the education system in the west is turning full neoliberal woke.
They won’t pay educators properly but have plenty of time to ban everything including words like ‘field’ for being racist. Instead of paying professionals to teach real subjects, money is spend purging offending words. No doubt a great gravy train.
Michigan and California institutions ban the word ‘field’ as racist
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/michigan-and-california-institutions-ban-the-word-field-as-racist
Why Is College So Expensive if Professors Are Paid So Little?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little/
“SEIU’s adjunct-organizing project estimates that as of 2013, “22 percent of part-time faculty live below the poverty line,” significantly higher than the overall poverty rate nationwide.
But the hyperinflated price tag of college has funneled toward another aspect of the higher education system: driving funds into administrative offices—a pattern “reflected in increases in the numbers of administrative positions, increases in those salaries, and increases in the percentage of college budgets going to these functions.”
Remember Don Brash is too racist to speak at a NZ university now.
Woman are not allowed to speak in public.
Erosion of knowledge is a huge problem, and getting worse! Secular education is now broken, because of all the fringe groups demanding and supplying ‘free’ programs in schools.
They don’t pay teachers well, because they don’t value knowledge or think that it’s a skill to supply knowledge via teaching real information. Instead they want minimum waged, ‘facilitators’ as they want to control knowledge thinking it will help keep control, instead the lack of critical thinking and knowledge is becoming the opposite, a huge liability for the west.
Don’t worry if you don’t like the way your patients look at you, you can punish them.
Med student says she stuck patient twice with needle after he mocked her pronoun pin
https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/med-student-stuck-patient-twice-with-needle-after-he-mocked-pronoun-pin/
Too much focus on identity that drowns out disturbed people getting into sought after professions like medicine.
Convicted murderer Venod Skantha can keep calling himself a doctor – for now
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/117778288/medical-council-reopens-investigation-into-convicted-murderer-venod-skantha
Maybe the rise in people feeling mentally ill, is linked to the rise of people who should not be in positions of power.
Just today, lawyer smuggles in drugs/cigarettes for boyfriend turned husband in jail serving a life sentence for raping and killing deaf woman Emma Agnew in Christchurch in 2007, as well as the rape, attempted murder, and robbery of a 21-year-old student in Dunedin nine days later.
But it’s racism that is the problem when she got struck off!
Not inability to make legal decisions such as consequences for smuggling contraband into prison for convicted murderer!
To my mind the teachers union has opted for a Soviet Union style remuneration: Everyone gets paid the same regardless of results. So they shouldn’t be surprised that their standard of living mirrors that mentality.
So if teachers were so well paid under National why have we got to this point?
If most teachers get paid twice as much as the median wage and they can’t make ends meet then what does this say about the rest of New Zealand? Two thirds are struggling low income? More than this?
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