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   swansinflight :antiverified: (swansinflight@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:48 JST swansinflight :antiverified:

   Wonder if I can send an invoice for lost income to my kids school for all the time we're having to spend not working while these strikes are on 🤔

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     swansinflight :antiverified: (swansinflight@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:43 JST swansinflight :antiverified:

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     • Zeborah

     @zeborah that is how pay increases. To attract staff, you keep raising the pay until you get them.

     Whereas they are already there, then grouped up to bully their employer. The teachers union is the one making my life difficult through their actions, not the govt - but that is what they want me to think.

     @blueshiftnz

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     Zeborah (zeborah@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:43 JST Zeborah

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     @swansinflight That's how pay increases (sometimes) *in the private sector* because you can attract good staff from your competitors. But the government has no real competitors so it's got away with increasingly low pay for years. When teachers leave the industry it doesn't increase pay, it just increases workload and class sizes - so more teachers leave, and fewer people see it as a profession worth joining, perpetuating the cycle of increased workload/class sizes for those remaining.

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     Zeborah (zeborah@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:45 JST Zeborah

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     @swansinflight @blueshiftnz But if the teachers change industry there'll never be anyone to look after your kids. Send the invoice to the govt and demand they increase education funding to meet the teachers' demands that are required to support adequate education for your kids.

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     swansinflight :antiverified: (swansinflight@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:46 JST swansinflight :antiverified:

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     @blueshiftnz I just want them to go do their job. If I want to earn more money I have to change industry. I am on comparable income and build half million dollar cars. Doesn't mean I make a ton. They were aware what industry they were training to be in, as was I.

     If I wanted more money I would be retraining to do something else. But I want to do my current job so am capped for income. Pretty simple.

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     BlueShiftNZ (blueshiftnz@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:47 JST BlueShiftNZ

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     No, because if you get paid to educate your children during a strike, you're a scab?

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     Zeborah (zeborah@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:50 JST Zeborah

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     @swansinflight The union action causes short-term disruption in order to force the government to overcome its "but my taxpayer dollars!" inertia - to prevent what will otherwise be a much bigger, much more long-term problem of not having enough willing teachers for the country's population of students.

     A bunch of strike days now sucks - but "Sorry, we don't have enough teachers to enrol your kids this year, and nor do any other schools in town" would suck even more.

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     Alistair K (libroraptor@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:22:51 JST Alistair K

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     @swansinflight I wonder whether an argument might be made in terms the schools having had plenty of advance notice to figure out alternatives, police-vet non-registered educators, and so on, and question why the schools are passing the costs to parents. Perhaps the trickiest part is to frame it in terms of lost learning, not lost babysitting.

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