London road closures - Thursday 30th June
Wrath Rob
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Just had this through from our travel services team
Lets hope the teachers are better behaved than the students and don't go on the rampage.Please be advised that the National Union of Teachers Rally tomorrow will cause severe traffic disruptions and road closures in Central London. Closures will affect roads surrounding Westminster, The Strand and Holborn. Roads will be closed from approx 11am to 5pm.
See attached link to view a map of affected areas - http://www.met.police.uk/events/event_m ... +June+2011
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The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
going home is going to be chaos on the roads again - need to find an alternative route .. sigh!
Let's hope they are. Can you imagine the balding Geography teacher in the tweed jacket with leather elbow patches kicking in the windows of the Conservative HQ? That would be hilarious.
Oy big ears, leave my mum out of it OK!
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routes will be closed
other roads will be chocked with cars
and others with molotov cocktail flinging science teachers...
might just walk to waterloo...
Not to mention the bearded metalwork teachers who've had the fifth-year making rudimentary shivs to hide down their Argyll socks.
Yeah, won't affect me. I'm at my desk by around 8.30am and don't leave til 6.30pm or so...
im sure therell be a couple of hours either side where itll still be chaos...
You don't work in the same office as me by any chance do you? although I do try to be in the office before 8 and still leave after 7...
Sometimes I really I think I should just be in charge.
It'll be hijacked by the anarchists, and there will be troubles!
"Let's just all be really careful out there folks!"
Because being paid more, working less, having more sick days, getting better pensions and being unaccountable isn't "fair" to the public sector workers. Having to actually fund your (increasingly long) retirement also isn't fair. It should be someone elses responsibility, like the taxpayer, who has already suffered during the recession, funnily enough without striking, because some people value their jobs in the first place.
The bigger question (as posted above) is - why don't they do it during the school holidays (all two months of them)? Because blackmail only works if you've managed to utterly inconvenience everyone else due to your own self interest, ignornace and greed.
I hope the public services carry on undisturbed today, proving that those on strike add nothing and are genuinely "redundant".....
Anyway, road closures eh?
Dunno, I'm based on Holborn, just up from Sainsbury's HQ towards Chancery Lane tube..
Ooh, macho hours talk!!!! Look at me - I work too hard!!!! :roll:
It's just a hill. Get over it.
Paid more? The head of a school has a huge responsibility comparable to managing a medium sized business, but is paid nowhere near as much as his/her private sector equivalent - partly explained by the better pension.
Unaccountable - not sure about that, league tables et al
Sick days - probably right
Working less - minefield, not going there. Most teachers I know actually do a shed load of work out of school, planning lessons, marking, etc.
I agree fully with the need to reform public sector workers' pensions, but I can understand their anger that their sole benefit (the ONLY one they get) is being eroded.
It's just a hill. Get over it.
My other half works for a big bank that just announced a lot of job losses. On Tuesday their great and good were at Wimbledon having a champagne reception, tonight they are having another champers bash with an ice sculpture as a centre piece. I almost feel like emailing the Daily Mail...tax payers bank fat cats enjoy champers whilst slashing jobs etc. :roll:
The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
People are living longer. The population is aging. To avoid a massive national pension deficit in 15-25 years time, which would cause a huge increase in the portion of tax spent on paying public sector pensions and hence lack of spending on services such as health, education, welfare etc, people need to take some personal responsibility which means either starting to make your own pension investments, increase current ones or work longer.
I understand completely that people are living longer and essentially, retirement ages haven't been realigned in decades however I can understand their frustration. This re evaluation of public sector pensions seems borne of an economic catastrophe brought about by the private sector, notably banks, which has then obliged the public sector to step in to pick up the pieces. I work with bankers, I headhunt them day in and day out and although there have been massive headcount reductions in the investment banking sector since 2008, banks and bankers generally appear to have "got off lightly", whilst the public sector continues to pick up some of the slack. The best paid bankers now pay a bit more tax on the top level of pay, which they whinged long and hard about, threatening to move to Geneva or Asia etc etc, but otherwise, they're still paid well and continue to receive bonuses.
Although I agree that public sector pensions need some reviewing, I can understand where the anger comes from...
Honestly, can't these protestors protest somewhere a little less central? The selfishness is staggering.
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