Michael Gove warns teachers against militancy over strikes

worst education secretary, said the strikes over pensions to Thursday are premature and will hit single parents

Education Secretary Michael Gove, has warned against the union "militancy" in advance of a planned strike by teachers and public employees.

Gove said the government was doing everything possible to keep schools open on Thursday, including an appeal to parents to help. He warned the measures envisaged by the teacher unions could harm the reputation of the profession and it was "premature" in negotiations over the controversial pension reform took place.

Gove told BBC1 Andrew Marr Show:. "If schools are not open on Thursday, there will be big problem for working parents, especially single parents, they will have to reorganize the care of children in a very short time

"I think it's bad for people who work hard to make their lives are affected in this way.

"So I think it's fair that schools remain open. They can not offer the traditional menu, but it must be open for children make something useful and people are not inconvenienced. "

He added: "I fear that the industrial action, being on the picket line, being involved in this type of activism really means that the area in which teachers should be taken a little back and think it will be a shame for all of us who want a better education system. "

Gove said the government "will do everything possible to ensure that schools remain open" with arrangements that could be considered "Parents are going to help." He said the anti-strike " must be reviewed "and recognized that different options are being considered following reports of a minimum threshold of the strike vote is considered by ministers.

But he added:. "The only thing I do not want to do is to intensify the rhetoric, because I think it's important that we speak"

But he warned the unions. " The public has a very low tolerance for anything that disrupts their life work "

He added: "Not to see hospital consultants go on strike and I do not think that teachers and principals must

• "It is within their rights is a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession."

Thursday, more than 750,000 teachers, professors, civil servants and other public sector workers to take more and there are threats of more strikes throughout the summer and fall.

Speaking on the same program, the shadow cabinet minister Peter Hain, refused to get people to go to work on Thursday, adding that the strike, if "I really believe I did not choice ".

"Teachers and others are not strike-happy. What the government should do is to withdraw its unilateral attacks, reckless of these workers and get around the negotiating table , as everyone wants to do. "

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