Young Teachers demand action in Bristol

3000 of us marched through the streets of Bristol. The mood was electric. When I spoke at the rally, I apologised if I had crossed any picket-line the last time the NUT had held a national strike - I was only in reception class! I pointed out how rubbish the government were at maths when it came to calculating inflation; the fact that when you work out the long hours we work, young teachers like me were earning less than £7 an hour; and it was great that NUT, PCS and UCU were on strike - but, next time, all the public sector unions should be out together!

Sheila Caffrey