Teachers do not get paid if they are on strike. If they are in financial hardship caused being an continual strike they can apply for benevolence but it is never assured
the point about teachers pensions is that they are expected to pay another £100 per month towards their pensions work longer and get less pension at the end of it. The teachers pensions would be self financing if it had been invested but it is a notional fund. For every £ I that taxpayer put in to public service pensions as a top up, we put £2.50 in to the private sector top up .Remember, teachers are also tax payers. teachers pensions are not 'gold plated'. when I retire after 40 years my pension will be just under £10, 000 per year. Don't get taken in by the governments spin. they have just awarded themselves a minimum pension of about £28,000 after just one term in office.
It also needs reinforcing that not all teaching unions were on strike yesterday. My union has a mandate from our members to negotiate with the Government until we have totally exhausted that avenue before we ballot for industrial action up to and including strike action which was a motion passed at our 2010 and 2011 National Conferences. But, if we have to, we will . mean while we will do nothing to under mine the legitimate industrial action of another TUC affiliated trade union.