NUT Teacher’s Strike
April 24th, 2008 | Filed under Personal.
It’s nice and quiet in here. The school is shut to students, and anyone who’s a member of the NUT are on strike. I’m not an NUT member, so I’m not on strike although I do see why it’s happening. Want to see what we’re griping at? Here’s an Excel spreadsheet explaining how much we get paid… And a small excerpt for those allergic to Excel:
|  |  |  |  | SEPT 2007 £ |  | SEPT 2008 £ |  | SEPT 2008 £ |  | SEPT 2009 £ |  | SEPT 2010 £ |
| Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | proposed | Â | if pay had | Â | proposed | Â | proposed |
| Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â matched inflation | Â | Â | Â | Â |
| Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
| MAIN PAY SCALE | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Â | Â | Â | 20,133 | Â | 20627 | Â | 21,607 | Â | 21,101 | Â | 21,587 |
| 2 | Â | Â | Â | 21,726 | Â | 22259 | Â | 23,315 | Â | 22,771 | Â | 23,295 |
| 3 | Â | Â | Â | 23,472 | Â | 24,048 | Â | 25,191 | Â | 24,601 | Â | 25,167 |
| 4 | Â | Â | Â | 25,278 | Â | 25,898 | Â | 27,129 | Â | 26,494 | Â | 27,103 |
| 5 | Â | Â | Â | 27,270 | Â | 27,939 | Â | 29,267 | Â | 28,582 | Â | 29,239 |
| 6 | Â | Â | Â | 29,427 | Â | 30,148 | Â | 31,579 | Â | 30,841 | Â | 31,551 |
So as you can see, in six years time I can look forward to earning £30,000 a year before tax.
It’s an INSET day tomorrow that we’re being given back as payment for overtime worked previously in the year. I’m using today to get all my work for next week done, saving me from having to do it tomorrow or at the weekend. I’m having an observation next Wednesday so it’s nice being able to faff about in my classroom sorting out time-consuming things like random piles of paper and junk that accumulates over time.
And for anyone wondering, there wasn’t anything interesting happening outside the school gates. Those that are on strike are simply not here and it’s all calm and quite relaxing really. Bizarrely I seemed to have more time this morning before setting off. I wasn’t in any particular rush and still arrived on time.
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damn straight.
my missus is also a teacher and she works all the bleeding hours there are. I think she was in school from 8 till 6 yesterday (weekly planning meeting), then did an hour half of work in the evening. ( shes also not striking on account of being NASUWT). The next half term ‘holiday’ will be consumed with doing reports for about the 30 odd kids in her class.
consequently the vitriol directed towards teachers on the BBC website is currently getting right on my mammaries.
I’m also in the NASUWT. If anything we should be striking about the amount of non-teaching work we have to do.
I have to physically prepare and write about 120 reports within the next two weeks. The big time waster with this is making a list of students so I can run them through Word’s mail-merge and produce report templates to fill in.
We have an electronic registration system, but it’s not possible to extract class lists from it to use in other software so I have to manually type out every kid’s name. As an IT person who also writes software, this drives me nuts!
Still, it was a nice quiet day and I got a lot of work done. Tomorrow is an INSET day