Shropshire schools closed in pensions strikes
Thursday 30th June 2011, 8:05AM BST.
MORE THAN 70 schools across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin will be forced to close or remain only partially open because of today’s public sector pensions strike.
Nationally thousands of schools, job centres, tax offices and courts are all set to close or be badly disrupted by the action which, it has been warned, will cause “massive inconvenience to families”.
In the Shropshire Council area 24 schools will close while a further 33 will be partially closed. Eight Telford & Wrekin schools will close and eight will be affected by partial closure as a result of the action by members of the National Union of Teachers, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and University and College Union.
Shrewsbury Sixth Form College – the county’s biggest A-level centre – will be closed but other colleges expect to remain open.
Christine Hargest, secretary of the Shropshire NUT, said the number of school closures and partial closures showed the strength of feeling of members.
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Hundreds and thousands of people have lost or are losing their jobs, many in the private sector don’t even have pensions, graduate wages are pathetic & the jobs scarce.
Strikes like this suggest that it is not the whole country suffering. Everybody is going to lose out while the country is suffering financially, that’s just a fact of life. Me and mine may not like it but we are getting on with it, so should all.
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