Still standing up for ourselves

Welcome to the New Year. We look forward to it being a productive year professionally, personally and of course industrially. 2015 will see the IEU and its members continue to ensure that our working conditions are not compromised by a substandard industrial agreement that is still currently being put forward by employers.

Protests and stop works will continue if the employers continue to put forward this deeply flawed proposed agreement. Continue to wear red and your badges to remind employers we will not stand down.

The proposed agreement is complex, has immense detail and affects teachers, principals and support staff. Consequently progress will be slow, at times tedious and we, as members, will need to stay strong, not lose our focus (like employers wish us to do), so that we do not end up with a substandard agreement that strips away or undermines hard fought for gains from the last 30 years.

Current workload agreements will stay in place, so do not fall for misinformation. Stay in touch with the IEU through the website, Facebook and Twitter.

Do you have new staff members or graduate teachers? Join them up and educate them on the working conditions of their profession resulting from the hard work of those who have come before them.

Bernadette Baker
Vice President Systemic Schools