And, of course, the unions' members on the whole enjoy relatively short workdays and long holidays.
These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
Long after the holidays, I'm still answering email from friends and relatives, and even a few strangers.
This is a man who likes his holidays long and his memos short.
Most state schools in England have three long terms with holidays at Christmas, Easter and in the summer, as well as half-term breaks.
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Plus, those who have been job hunting for a long time feel like the holidays present an opportunity to take a break.
Entrepreneurs often need to work long hours, weekends and holidays.
The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.
And you are given a mixture of short- and long-term rewards ranging from reduced premiums to exotic holidays.
It means working long past 5 PM, turning evenings, weekends and holidays into business opportunities, and struggling during lean times.
The next time you're on your journey home - be it from work or from holidays - and you're bemoaning the long motorway drive, just think how much worse it would be without the 50-year-old stretch of highway.
London Underground says it has a long-standing agreement with all of its trade unions covering bank holidays.
Americans have been more cautious about making long-distance trips, and many have preferred to take overseas holidays in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean rather than in Europe or Asia.
"Our priority is to ensure our customers go on their holidays and we are, therefore, putting contingency plans in place including using alternative aircraft for our long-haul flights to Mexico and Florida if delivery is delayed beyond the end of March, " Thomson said in a statement.
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