And now for my humble opinion!!!
OK, it's not right that a kindergarden teache, a school teacher and a collgae teacher would have the same pay - I am a school teacher, I'd like a higher pay, but there is a hirarchy!
I think that the right to strike is a good thing!!!
The only problem is, that only those who feel secure enough strike (let's say teachers, doctors,... - I'm talking about Slovenia now). But the peolpe who really should go on strike (some factory workers) don't dare.
The thing is, that the family next door has two children (bot parents work in the same factory) and I have no idea how they survive! Both of the parents together recieve a lesser pay than mine (and I've been employed for full time only for a few months now - and have no children), and neither of them was payed for three months now!!! They should strike - they really need higher and more regularly payed wages. But they don't dare.
I do agree however that the best rulership would be an enlightened leader (but remember power corupts!!!).
About the job of a teacher, well that's another thing!
I know most of you believe that teachers don't have much to do, but believe me, that those who want to work well have more then enough work!!!
There are days I work from 7am to 5pm (every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday), I also have working Saturdays and when the children have holydays I work (but I'm an exception that proves the rule - there are only 3 other teachers that work half as much as I do)!
And when it comes down to teaching the children younger then 8 - well I teach children from ages of 7 up to 15 and I can tell you, that a class of 20 10 year olds is much more demanding then a class of 400 20 year olds (I gave 2 lectuers at South-West Texas University to two groups of 300 students - so I should know). If you don't believe me just try it your self!
Still, I don't even dream of demanding a higher pay (even if my pay is not that good). The main problem is, that my country is not so rich they could pay the government employed teacher much more money. So compared to my neighbours who work in a private factory I'm actually very rich - I get a solid pay regularly every month and can get any kind of credit I'd want.
Now I don't know what's it like in Iceland, but I know my fellow teachers here (the ones that do the least - and get higher pays then me because of their longer employed status) are complaining they have to much work and not a high enough payment. So I guess this strike is unfair!
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