Despite two years of pay freezes and a 1 per cent cap in 2013, a 1 per cent pay rise is being imposed for 2014, when RPI inflation was 3 per cent. The NUT, and Unite, Unison and GMB unions whose members are being hit by similar issues, argue workers are suffering from falling living standards. (The majority of people has suffered a slight (I emphasise slight) fall in living standards... In real money terms they have lost 2%) The NUT claims teachers are forced to work 60 hours a week on average, and the prospect of working until they are 68. (Yes 60 hours a week is a lot, but there are other professions which do more hours, both for better and worse pay.) Staff are also unhappy with what they regard to be plans to “tear up” the national teacher pay system, as the national pay structure will be replaced by performance related pay. (Im sure many would agree that better teachers deserve to be paid better, and vice versa, this happens in the private sector so it astounds me that people in the public sector think they are special and immune from the enormous budget deficit the government is running... cuts are going to going on for probably another decade... we just gotta grit our teeth and get through it... or work in another country.. or get a different job... )
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:22:15 +0000
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