Thirty Alexandra School teachers receive full pay for illegal 3 week strike
by One Who Knows
With the arrival of their regular pay yesterday, the 30 teachers at Alexandra School who abandoned their students for an illegal 3 week strike learned that the government, school authorities and the taxpayers will tolerate this behaviour. They learned that the DLP government is too frightened of the government workers to take the reasonable action of docking their pay for missed days.
The students learned that the equation ‘work = paycheque’ is as invalid as the concept of ‘basic standards’ in employer – employee relations. By now the students have learned that there is not a hope in hell that the lost 3 weeks will be made up in any meaningful way. The students are not worried because they know that the teachers will pass them on anyway at the end of term. They learned that they must be passed on or the teachers would have to admit that the strike harmed the students and that the lost time was not made up for. So the students know they will be successful at the end of term.
The non-striking teachers also learned a lesson: they should have gone with the mob. The mob are the heroes, the non-striking teachers are the villains and fools: villains for not showing solidarity with the others and fools because there was no penalty.
There were many lessons learned during the illegal strike, but the biggest lesson came yesterday: from the Stuart Government when it sent the regular pay to the striking teachers.
Nation News: Not docked
Barbados Free Press 
I have a little repair shop. Can I take three weeks off and have the guvment pay me too?
Sweeeet comment! ^
i dont see y the government didnt let bstu use dem fund for the purpose it is intended for.
Most of those teachers who took strike action are accustom to NOT working/teaching anyway, so the usual precedent is pay those who DO NOT work and get rid of those who do. Same shit all over B’dos
176, you know it well!
Reward the incompetents and dismiss the meritorious!
Lower our (laughable) ‘standards’ closer down towards the dregs, the lower common denominators -and all is well.
THAT’s the stuff elections are won on!
Can’t see how CXC will allow students to pass just so but “one who knows” must know that too!!
I agree with paying the teachers (all of them).
They taught us all a lesson on principle over those three weeks!!
Okay, three things: as mentioned above with an election looming, which governent in their right mind is going to cut their pay? Stop gettng on like we enforce rules in Barbados.
Also after all that hullabaloo Broomes IS STILL THERE (apparently sill mekking strife) NOTHING HAS CHANGED. the teachers strike was an excercise in futility. the man they sought to destroy did a Mr. Harding.
Also, this whole thing had significant entertainment value for the whole country last month. You got to admit everyone HAD SOMETHING to say, everyone picked a side, it was just BARE SPORT for all o we malicious bajans!! We loved reading/watching every minute of it. It was a really good break from checking real issues like crime, bad economy, tacky tourism product, fading morals, dirty environment etc.
looks to me that MARY has FROON by the short and curlies…..so to speak.
now we know who is running the country…..WIMPS!!
Chris McHale
What Alexandra School students learned today…?????
They dont teach the history of Barbados after 1930
Teach them about the Plantations ,
Let each child research a Plantation ,
Where ever they live is part of a Plantation , bought, sold, names , dates, acres , roods, perches, pounds paid,
Plantations growing houses now and less sugar and food
No 1127
Entered 16th
June 1936
Sargeants Plantation
SOLD to Beatrice from Ward,,,, not to C.O Williams
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