What a week! City of Derby schools have been sending messages of support and vouchers for cakes to schools in Knowsley (Liverpool) taking strike action on Thursday. We had a solidarity protest outside the Council House on Wednesday where the NASUWT and NUT Secretaries handed a letter to Martin Rawson (Cabinet Member for Children and Young People) condemning Gove's attacks on teachers' pay, pensions and conditions of service and asking for his support. Gove the 'Child Catcher' chased teachers and stole children's education from them. The support from passers by gave the lie to Gove's statements that teachers do not have the support of the parents and the wider public.
On Thursday - strike day! - the City of Derby banner was carried proudly on the Liverpool march by a member of our Division and a member of Knowsley Division. Several hundred teachers marched through the centre of Liverpool to the applause of shoppers - many of them parents with their children who were out of school because of the strike. By the time the march reached St George's Hall it had swelled to several thousand and both the hall and the overflow hall were packed to the rafters with teachers, parents and children all chanting 'Gove Must Go!', stamping and clapping.
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