I’m not clear why people think Labour’s ‘new’ desire for schools to reopen in September somehow puts them on a collision course with teaching unions.

Teaching unions - made up, y’know, *teachers* - also want schools to reopen in September.

Like, duh.
Do you think teachers - the members of those darned teaching unions - spent all those years training to become teachers just so they could live the dream of... not teaching?

They’d have backed schools reopening this summer if it could be done safely.
The casual assumption that teaching unions don’t want schools to reopen (what, like... ever??) is based quite a lot on the reflexive prejudice some politicos have towards unions.

Teaching union members are teachers. They went into teaching to teach. Duh.
Hey, guess what led to school discipline becoming a big issue during the New Labour years?

Chris Woodhead going off on one? David Blunkett striking a pose in the right wing press?

No. It became a big issue because teaching unions found it was their members’ key concern.
Of course, the complete absence of any remote relationship to the reality of major institutions (unions) or key public services (schools) is absolutely no barrier to progress in politics and political commentary
Also, never ever forget how viciously the Right demonised junior doctors for going on strike.

The same people now writing up junior doctors as heroes bla bla bla
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