Thousands of council workers are on strike across the UK today and tomorrow, forcing the closure of many of our schools. All but one that I know in Swansea is shut. I’ve got every sympathy for the strikers: the union represents many of the lowest paid whose work is routinely undervalued and unappreciated. My sympathy is tempered a tad by the knowledge that about half the children in our school* are about to descend on my house in exchange for another parent taking my kids tomorrow.
Pray for me.
* Of course, I exaggerate for effect
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steve 07.17.08 at 8:15 am
head teacher catholic primary school moseley bham illegally employed own teenage son and daughter to make sandwiches in school kitchen for free school meals breaking unison strike
Richard 07.17.08 at 4:29 pm
I haven’t come across that anywhere online, Steve. Do you have a link?