💬 ‘It feels like we’re being punished’ 🔴 Overworked teachers are working the equivalent of two full-time roles or having to take up extra jobs on the side to cover their living costs
Action could take place in February should teachers vote in favour, with a teachers’ union boss refusing to rule out going on strike during exams.
“There are plenty of other teachers I know on the top pay scale who are doing nail art on the side or other services in order to get by and they’re full-time teachers,” she toldMs Preston, a single mother of two, who has had to go from full-time to part-time teaching since giving birth to her second child, said her salary did not cover her living costs, even on “the top pay scale”.
in combination with what people in the public sector used to earn in comparison to how much things cost resulting in us actually having a pay cut.”she voted for industrial action because “there’s no other option” if she wanted to provide the best possible education for her students. “My payslip is contracted to 32 hours a week, but I work more than 45 hours. I’m a teacher who doesn’t do work at home but there are so many for whom that’s not the case,” she said.
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