I feel for kids in schools and universities at the moment, having spent the last couple of years shut away from their mates, not taking proper exams and having to do lessons and lectures via video-links and not being able to socialise properly it was rough. The current round of teacher strikes are the cherry on the icing on the cake! My own daughter for example has no lectures at all this week, book work only. I must admit, I do feel slightly cheated that our money still flows into the coffers of the University but no one is there! (and don't get me started on wasted accommodation fees in central London!).
It's an impossible situation, workers who haven't been give a raise in the last couple of years generally have a good case! Inflation is running riot at the moment and those people at the lower end of the salary scales will be struggling with ridiculous energy and food price rises. The only people that can ultimately be held responsible are the Government, who seem to be asleep at the wheel or perhaps are in some post-Thatcherite comma thinking that they have some holy mission to crush the unions. I don't know what the answer is, the only thing I know is that it's the consumers of these services, i.e. joe public, are the ones who ultimately pay the price, regardless of how these disputes turn out.
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