Let me start by saying I think teachers should be paid more than they currently are.
But ... the representatives of teachers' unions strike me as particularly inept, when it comes to PR.
They repeatedly make statements about how awful it is being a teacher and then complain about deterioration in recruitment and retention. While the two are obviously related, it seem two-faced for the unions to bag the sector they work in for decades and then observe that fewer people want to work in it - no shirt Sherlock!
The other thing is how disingenuous the union reps are when saying their motive is to improve pay and condition to improve recruitment and retention.
Give me a break. Teacher want more money and their jobs to be easier. Fair enough - that is a completely justified self interest But why do they dress it up in glad-wrap as some sort of publicly minded objective.