Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
Created/Published
Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
Issue
Vol. 84 No. 09 (1 Sep 2003)
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Contents

EDUCATION JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Three states to strike on September 17 1
National Day of Action 1
Updated campaign engine focuses on the economics 1
15,000 reasons to oppose restructure 1
Report incidents for August violence audit 1
NEWS Child protection changes remain unknown 2
Poll results confirm support 2
Aboriginal education conference 2
Parents march against restructure 2
Presidential officers re-elected unopposed 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
Public education, the IRC and the public interest 3
Government split over education policy 3
Come and get it 3
Sign petition against ABC cuts 3
TAFE students take to streets over fees 4
WA politicians attacked over their salaries 4
New membership system 4
Guidelines on OH&S and privacy established 4
Advertising 4
Teacher supply reaching crisis 5
Disciplinary processes review announced 5
Federation will award $20,000 for trainee teachers 5
Advertising 5
Proactive federal strategy for a positive future 6
School demands new facilities 7
Confidentiality and the law 7
Advertising 7
Secure carports a necessity for THA dwellings 8
Year 10 computing assessment deferred 8
Community builds school hall 8
Advertising 8
DET consults with industrial arts teachers 9
What can I do if I don’t agree with the DET advice? 9
Advertising 9
The President Writes Government double deals 10
LETTERS to the Editor `Eric remembered 10
Off to England 10
Old leftie turned green 10
Show we’re serious 11
Sitting pretty 11
Bans not strikes 11
Suggestions need airing 11
Midlife men 11
Making a mockery 25
Be wary over Korean camps 25
Land grab 25
Think outside the square 25
Make up your mind 25
Have a go at the system, not individuals Vandervliet replies to critics 11
It's the system 11
Divide and conquer 11
AEU Branch Election notice 12
Addditional TUT courses 12
Advertising 12
ADMINIS Relief Administrative Officers for 2004 12 , 25
Tree Levy for 2004 12 , 25
Annual Conference Decisions Theme – Valuing public education, teachers, students, communities 13
Urgent review of the current child protection legislation 13
Defeating the Howard agenda 14 , 15
Valuing our professional standards institute of teachers 15
Summit on the challenges facing our children 15
Salaries and status campaign 16
Air conditioning in classrooms 16
Advertising 16
TAFE – Technical and Further Education 17 , 18 , 19 , 20
Advertising 17 , 18 , 19 , 20
Valuing our workplaces – OH&S 21
Corrective Services Adult Education and Vocational Training Institute 21
Valuing teacher judgement – curriculum assessment and reporting 22 , 23
Valuing teacher time – excessive teacher workload 24
Advertising 24
Carbon Copy Workload and salaries 25
Advertising 25
TAFE Teachers and students mobilise for TAFE 26
Placards greet Minister 26
Campus handover will be opposed 26
New twist to state aid 26
Letters protest fees 26
RETIRED Retired Teachers Association 27
Support our witnesses in the IRC 27
REVIEWS cheap WINE Cask wine is on the up 28
Advertising 28
Up,Up and Away Far away places with strange sounding names... 29
GOING UP THE COUNTRY More pirouetting wildlife 29
Advertising 30
FILM Films for the autumnal blues 31
Theatre A Hare’s breath 31
Website Read all about it 31
Hello, I am Tom Cruise Mr Yen’s World 32
Advertising 32
Computer Corner Making movies, fast 32
Advertising 33 , 34 , 35
DT SMITH 34
THOSE WHO CAN’T 34
East Timorese teachers visit NSW schools 35
March for peace 35
DET should supply vehicles 35
INSIDE 36
Environment linked to several KLAs 36
Advertising 36

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EDUCATION  

JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

PP255003 00104  

Vol. 84 0.9 September 1» .2 003  

Three states to strike on September 17  

by John Irving  

NSW public education teachers will strike on  

September 17 with their Western Australian  

and Victorian colleagues over salaries.  

On July 29 members voted overwhelm-  

ingly to take industrial action to support the  

salaries claim and full funding demands on  

the Government.  

Major rallies will be held in Sydney and  

regional NSW.  

Simultaneously, events will take place in  

Melbourne and Perth.  

Teachers in each participating state are  

protesting against insulting pay offers from  

employers and the collusion of state Treasur-  

ers to depress teachers’ wages across the  

nation.  

In Sydney members are urged to attend  

rally that will assemble at 10.30 am in  

Hyde Park North and then march to Parlia-  

ment House to remind politicians of their  

responsibility to public education.  

Rallies will be held in major regional  

centres and Sky Channel venues will be  

arranged for members who cannot attend  

these rallies.  

Members are urged to bring posters and  

“Letter of Demand” on the Government.  

draft letter of demand will be sent to all  

workplaces.  

Skywriting and/or aeroplane trailing flags  

have been organised for South Coast, New-  

castle and Sydney.  

Please attend rallies where possible to  

demonstrate our solidarity and resolve.  

Jobn Irving  

is the Assistant General Sec-  

retary (Schools).  

National Day of Action  

Public education teachers across the nation  

will be highlighting the dangerous and short-  

sighted decision of state Labor Treasurers to  

depress the real wages of teachers irrespec-  

tive of the value of their work or the teacher  

shortage.  

Victoria: 24-hour strike rejecting 2.25  

per cent offer (with 0.75 per cent extra avail-  

able for “productivity”).  

NSW: 24-hour strike rejecting three per  

cent per year for two years offer.  

Western Australia: Half-day strike reject-  

ing three per cent offer.  

Queensland: has accepted 3.8 per cent  

from June 1,2003,3.5 per cent from July 1,  

2004, 3.5 per cent from July 1, 2005, plus  

300 additional teachers to make class size  

target of 28 in years to 10 by 2007; but  

will undertake activities of support.  

Tasmania: will undertake activities of  

support.  

Northern Territory: protest action in  

Darwin and Alice Springs after school hours  

because they have already reached salaries  

agreement.  

ACT: has been offered 6.87 per cent to  

achieve parity with NSW, and will undertake  

activities of support.  

South Australia: already has salaries  

agreement but will undertake activities of  

support.  

Updated campaign engine  

focuses on the economics  

by Dennis Long  

The importance of full funding from Treasury  

for any salary increase has been highlighted  

in more than 6000 letters sent to state politi-  

cians.  

Letter writers sent their letters using the  

most recent update of the salaries campaign  

engine on the Federation’s website.  

Members who go to www.nswtf.org.au  

and follow the prompts have the option of  

sending letter to politicians that calls on  

them to “take all steps necessary to ensure  

that the State Government fully funds our  

claim from Treasury”.  

The letter calls for the Government to  

increase its offer of three per cent per year and  

to pay the Vinson 5% catch-up as “a gesture  

of goodwill before arbitration” commences.  

The letter also calls on the Government to  

resile “from its public commitment to work  

with other state governments to hold down  

real wage growth for teachers”.  

The letters sent support for the ‘public  

interest’ argument to be put to the Industrial  

Relations Commission (see story page 3).  

The letter indicates that “investment in the  

status and salaries of the profession is  

major government responsibility”; that “it  

is now time for major breakthrough on  

teachers’ salaries to reassert the status of  

teaching and learning in our society”; and  

that “students and communities are put at  

risk by the continued undervaluing of the  

profession”.  

Members have reinforced the work value  

evidence to be put to the Industrial Relations  

Commission Education August 4) when  

they have written that the Government’s  

“proposed increases do not reflect the value  

of the work of teachers”.  

Members visiting the campaign engine  

can also easily indicate their support for the  

total claim of 25 per over two years with the  

award to end in December 2005.  

Visitors to the website can subscribe to  

campaign news mailing list, access five  

articles (at the time of writing) about the  

latest news and package of research and  

resources or follow link to 16 other articles  

posted since February this year.  

Dennis Long  

is the Editor.  

VALUE  

TEACHERS  

15,000 reasons to  

oppose restructure  

Meredith Burgmann accepts the biggest petition she’s ever  

received.  

by Kerri Carr  

Federation has presented more than 15,000  

signatures opposing the proposed restructure of  

the Department of Education.  

Labor Party MLC and NSW Legislative  

Council President Dr Meredith Burgmann  

accepted the petition and said it was the “biggest  

petition” she’d ever received.  

The petition calls on the Government to  

abandon its current restructuring plans, ensure  

there was no net loss of jobs in DET and ensure  

that educational need, not cost cutting, drives  

any restructure.  

Ms Burgmann said she would arrange for  

the petition to be presented to the Flouse in the  

first week of the next sitting.  

She said the Socialist Left’s position on the  

restructure proposal was to oppose any loss of  

jobs and that was her position.  

Federation Senior Vice President Angelo  

Gavrielatos presented the petition to Ms Burg-  

mann.  

“Thousands of Federation members and  

community members have demonstrated then-  

opposition to the proposal by signing peti-  

tion condemning the restructure. Unlike the  

Government, the Federation values the vital role  

and work of DET teaching service consultants  

and officers in both schools and TAFE,” Mr  

Gavrielatos said.  

Report incidents for  

August violence audit  

by Joan Lemaire  

The Federation chose the month of  

August to target violence against  

teachers.  

Members need to report all inci-  

dents of violence against teachers  

including verbal abuse and threats,  

physical assault, continued harass-  

ment and malicious damage to prop-  

erty.  

The union needs all teachers,  

including those in special education,  

to fill in the incident reports and  

ask the Federation Representative  

to send these reports to the District  

Superintendent and Federation.  

Federation will use these reports  

to demonstrate the types and extent  

of violence against teachers. They  

will not be used to take up individual  

issues but.to make the Department  

of Education and Training (DET)  

develop system-wide response to  

violence.  

At present the DET denies that  

violence is an issue and downplays  

TT  

the impact on teachers. Unless vio-  

___ ...  

lence is recorded, DET will continue  

to ignore the problem,  

Federation will be able to use  

,hese re orts as evldence ofthe need  

for more resources, training and  

staff. This will ensure that teachers  

are protected and that DET meets  

hs occupational health and safety  

obligations,  

Federation Representatives have  

copies of the violent incident  

reports or they can be found at  

www.nswtforg.au  

Please ensure that all reports on  

violent incidents in August are sent  

to Federation and district superin-  

tendents by September 8.  

Joan Lemaire  

is an Industrial  

Officer.  

Annual Conference decisions  

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