I used to work minimum wage up until about 4 weeks ago when i got bumped up to the amazing wage of £7 an
hour, while studying full time - Now, my big big peeve is people complaining. At the moment, especially with current situation how it is, people protesting for rises in wages. I know graduates that currently can only get one job, waitressing, and this is one of the lowest paid jobs in the country. I happen to know, that the union that covers this particular job role DOES NOT protest for wage increases. Because it cimply won't happen, obviously the people that work for approx £6 an hour, need £6 an hour and can't afford to not work in protest to try and get more.So, why do teaches always seem to be protesting for more money? Sure it's a specialised job, and you have to have degrees in order to do it, but there are people working out there for much less who never say squat about protesting in order to attempt to get more money. And some times, the people earning less are more qualified than the people in the said profession who are protesting for money.
The reason I'm saying this is that while surfing the Guardian website I came up with the following article:
Article
and the part of this article that really caught me out was "I am fed up with being overdrawn,' one teacher told conference. Photographer: Graham Turner" - this is the text, by the way, sitting underneath the picture.
So is just about every student in the country that isn't relying on mommy and daddy to get them through the recession and more to the point, so is just about every person who isn't an upper class person in an expenisve suite at the moment. Why do teachers deserve such a rise? Is the job they do truly that life threatening, mentally and physically exhausting? - Don't worry, I'm not an over-zealous anti-teacher, anti-academia nut job, my mums a teacher also and she works extremely hard at their job, but why do they deserve SUCH a huge increase? "10% or £3000, whichever sum is greater" - I'LL HAVE EITHER!
- Discuss =P
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ReplyDeleteThis is always going to be a topic which will be hotly debated. Purely because in a fair world, we all believe that teachers deserve to be paid more, as well as doctors, surgeons, police officers, firemen and nurses, in fact pretty much most people! But we also need to remember that we don't live in a fair world. If we did then we wouldn't have some footballers on 120,000 pound a week while a lot of the people in jobs listed above earn little more than 12,000 pound a year!
ReplyDeleteI think protesting can be regarded as bad behaviour. It causes a disturbance, very often results in some type of vandalism and can involve threatening behaviour. The people who do this though, clearly feel they have to protest to be recognised, maybe because their previous, more civilised attempts to be heard were being ignored. We all know what its like to feel strongly about something, to then be ignored by those who have the power to do something about it. Protesting makes you more difficult to ignore, therefore increasing the chance of the desired changes.
It is strange how bad, uncivilised behaviour such as this can be the best option to encourage changes such as increased pay. Our world is surely in a sad state when we feel the only way forward is to protest and riot!