I think the teachers can take heart that the private sector BA strikers won through and defeated Willie Walsh and kept their contract perks.
Last financial year the (tax payer owned) banks were paid out over £5billion in bonuses (in a recession).
The government want to take about half that off the teachers to pay down the deficit (ie their debt for bailing out the banks).
Hmmm, I suppose they couldve windfall taxed the banks properly, but then how would JackaStorrie's pimps be able to afford to take him all round London's top restaurants and woo him with champagne?