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# Crybabies of the week
- URL: https://goodoil.news/crybabies-of-the-week-3/
- Published: 2019-06-14T00:30:06.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-10T10:36:10.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

Today’s crybabies of the week CHOSE to go on strike for one day and to lose one day’s pay.

Choices have consequences.

> Teachers say they have been seeking help from foodbanks and hardship grants after the May 29 mega-strike **cost them a day’s pay.**  
>  
> \[…\] As a part-time teacher, losing a day’s wages meant a third of her income for the week was gone.   
>  
> Cheryl said she lived “pay packet to pay packet,” and the loss of earnings meant she couldn’t afford electricity, her mortgage or “even petrol to get to my next job”.  

> Losing a day’s pay was a blow for Auckland teacher Renee Rose, too. As a single mother, “every cent” of her salary was budgeted for rent, daycare, bills and food, she said.   
> She applied to the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) for a hardship grant, and the $100 she received went straight on gas and food -the essentials that meant she was living “above the line”.  
>  
> Auckland teacher Renee Rose had to apply for a hardship grant after the recent mega-strike.  
> Asking for help wasn’t comfortable: “You feel like you’ve failed in life,” she said.   
> But on a teacher’s salary it was impossible to save, she said.   
> For her, it wasn’t just about a day’s pay. She said it was impossible for her to afford to have another baby on her current wage.  
> “It’s sad, I love being a mum and I’d love to have another child,” she said.   
> After five years at university, she said she felt she shouldn’t be in this position.   
>  
> “I am good at what I do and I change the lives of many \[students\], why should I be in hardship? Why should I be struggling?”  
>  
>  
> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/113416044/teachers-turning-to-foodbanks-and-hardship-grants-after-loss-of-pay-from-striking?cid=app-android&ref=goodoil.news)