Stride to Grow 2030: Launching the IEU’s Strategic Plan

Many members will know that 2024 marks the 70th?anniversary of our union. While we take time to reflect on the IEU’s growth and many achievements throughout that time, it is important to consider how we prepare for the challenges of tomorrow and how we can ensure the union is best placed to build on our successes.

Earlier this year, the IEU’s 22-member Executive commissioned barrister and mediator Jack Whelan to work with us in developing a five-year?Strategic?Plan for the union. This work included extensive consultation with the Executive, more than 100 member delegates to Council and the IEU’s staff.

The resulting Strategic Plan, Stride to Grow 2030, was unanimously endorsed by the Executive and by Council at the union’s AGM on Saturday 26 October.

The plan articulates the union’s identity and values, along with a vision for our future. It identifies our strengths and the challenges we face, and it prioritises the union’s goals for the next five years.

The plan also incorporates several practical recommendations that we will implement, along with an accompanying detailed work plan, also endorsed the Executive. In the coming weeks and months, the project team will progress this work and report to the?Executive.

The Strategic Plan affirms we are a mighty and successful union with great potential and many opportunities. Stride to Grow 2030 sets the IEU on a path of growth, challenging us to raise our voice, optimise our operations and achieve even more wins for you, our members.

I acknowledge all the members, leaders and activists who have steered and grown our union over the past seven decades. And I urge all members (and potential members) to stride to grow your union to improve outcomes for yourself, your colleagues and for non-government education.