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Thread #138823 Message #3178913
Posted By: Penny S.
30-Jun-11 - 04:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Striking teachers should lose pay
Subject: RE: BS: Striking teachers should lose pay
Richard, the remark about all accountants is uncalled for. There are, or at least have been, honourable accountants not involved in finding tax loopholes for their over-rich clients, who regarded their work as a service not only to their clients, but to the community. Rather like lawyers.
I remember one occasion when one of my colleagues was holding forth with your sort of remark. I pointed out, quietly, that my father was an accountant. She continued as if I had not spoken. I repeated what I had said. She continued. I got a bit louder and said I did not want to sit there and listen to her insulting my father, and thought she was rude. (Or something.) She drew herself up and said that now we knew what I was really like. I left the room.
I don't want to get louder here.
Thanks for sticking up for the teachers.
I remember getting my statement of pension, and there were the records of missed strike days back in the days of Thatcher. They remember. Teachers are prepared to damage their own pensions in the short term in order to protect them in the long. I really don't know where Bonzo gets his ideas from. And I remember the NUT saying it could not afford to fund single day strikes, when strike pay was really needed for longer strikes in particular cases, so I never had strike pay.
I feel that the argument by comparison with private pensions is specious. If business has made cuts to impoverish their employees, why should the government follow? Who makes the decisions on governance? Surely legislation to protect all workers is the answer, not the rush to the bottom. Ha ha.
Penny