Teachers strike, right or wrong?

Yesterday, 25% of schools around the country were closed, due to teachers union striking, over a rise in age of retirement to 65, to workers in the public sector, this also spelled problems for airports, with immigration officers also entering in the strike. So the question is, is it right or is it wrong that they strike? or wasn't it?

The move came from teachers union groups NUT (National Union of Teachers) and ACT (Association of Teachers and Lecturers). Now we all understand why they went on strike, because of the impact that it will have on them in the future, and being a teacher is quite a pain staking job at the best of times, so increasing the age even by a year, is one more year that a teacher has to teach classes before retirement. Teachers have the right to strike against these proposals, so the strikes, are perfectly legal, and in reality caused minimum issues for schools, since only 25% of schools were closed, claimed one Tory MP. On one hand it could be suggested that it is right that the teachers go on strike against these new proposals, as it means that they have to work longer, and as said above teaching isn't easy at the best of times, and gets harder as age takes its toll, so some believe that the retirement age for workers in the public sector should be taken back down to the 60 year old retirement allowing age, and in some ways it should for the reasons above.

However, the retirement age of 65, isn't as bad as some may think, at the end of the day it is only 1 year, yes 1 on the 64 retirement age previously, so was it really that necessary to go on strike over it, some may think not. Even Labour leader Ed Milliband agreed with the governments proposals, which is a rarity, since he is the opposition leader, so in reality should be opposing proposals by the coalition, so this came as a surprise to some. On the back of his statement, he was jeered by the crowds, for expressing his honest opinion, but as tempers were high yesterday, this is understandable, and won't have gained him much support on the back of it. The main issue, is the trouble that this caused parents, though it may have only been 25% of schools closed, that is still a lot of parents that will have to panic and look for childcare, so won't really have gained the teachers any support whatsoever from the parents, and some schools were partially closed, so this would have caused more care problems for parents. This movement may have been beneficial for the teachers, but at the end of the day, it has caused more issues, than was really necessary.

So, overall i do agree that teachers should not have to work until 65, because of the work level that goes into teaching, but it caused more problems than it should have done for parents, and at the end of the day, talks are still ongoing, so was it really that necessary to strike yet, in reality, probably not.

It has also recently been revealed that a girl died during the day of the teachers strikes, when hit by a tree branch, whilst in a park, because of the strikes, so respect to her and her family in a difficult time, but surely more evidence against the teachers strikes.