Kate Hawkesby: I have sympathy for all sides when it comes to teacher strikes

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 2, 2023 · 10m

So just as we have rolling strikes beginning this week in New Zealand, the UK has strikes going on too.

Nurses and teachers.

Today here more than 22,000 schools were disrupted with a mass walkout of Union members. And if you think our strikes are bad, this is the fifth time this year teachers in England have walked off the job demanding better pay and conditions.

And it’s raised the question here of who picks up the slack and looks after all these kids for parents who have to keep working and can’t take the time off.

There’s a lot of debate here about what they’re calling ‘Granny day-care’…